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Youth Skills

Why financial inclusion for youth will raise all economic boats

Groups fighting for financial inclusion and youth employment united in Morocco. Will their findings promote progress?

The women in TYO's WISE program participate in a wide array of trainings, including Business English classes like this one. Photo: Lila Wakili (<a href="www.tomorrowsyouth.org">Tomorrow's Youth Organization</a>)

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Financial Inclusion

Incubating women's businesses in Palestine

This article was republished by The Christian Science Monitor.

Traveling to the Middle East? Use Yamsafer, the Orbitz of the region, created by talented youth and funded by enthusiastic investors. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pal_pics/5580956082/sizes/m/in/photostream/"> Ridvan Schiessl (flickr)</a>

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Hungry for work, West Bank programmers score tech investment

The small but burgeoning Palestinian IT sector cannot keep up with

Waiting to cross an Israeli checkpoint can take hours, if you can cross at all. Photo:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/8253950@N02/512467749/"> Michael Loadenthal (Flickr)</a>

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Youth Skills

The solution to Palestine's border problem? Exporting bits and bytes

This article was republished by The Christian Science Monitor

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Social Enterprise

Female tech entrepreneurs in Gaza

Palestinian youth can now connect with job opportunities through texting. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/1970701330/sizes/m/in/photostream/>Photo: Steve Rhodes (flickr)</a>

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Roaming resumes connect Palestinian youth

In Palestine, new technology is helping new graduates find job opportunities. Souktel, an organization providing mobile phone services for developing countries, understands that swift texting could spell out gainful employment for many young adults.

Despite the economic growth in Gaza, many destroyed homes still haven't been rebuilt. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rafahkid/3178733990/sizes/m/in/photostream/">RafahKid (flickr)</a>

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Gaza's Growth

Despite the continued blockade on goods in Gaza, the area is experiencing its first period of economic growth since 2007, largely due to Egyptian policy changes.

Tunnel workers prepare to lower someone into the tunnels. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoriah/3178786921/sizes/m/in/photostream/">Zoriah (flickr)</a>

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Blockade Ease Not Necessarily Helping Palestine

The tunnels in Gaza were an invention of necessity. They flourished during a three-year blockade of goods from Israel into Palestine. Trade had to come from somewhere.

Palestinian children ride a pair of dyed donkeys in the Mara Land Zoo. An authentic zebra would have been too expensive to smuggle. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasmastik/4138782760/"/>REUTERS/Mohammed Salem(flickr)</a>

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Israel's Blockade A "Death Penalty" for Business in Gaza

War has left the Gaza Strip in shambles, but bombs and bullets are only part of the disaster. The Israeli blockade of Gaza has also created a crisis for business in the region.

Israel's ban on the import of building materials means that very little reconstruction has taken place since the 22-day Israeli offensive at the beginning of the year. Photo: Linda Mason for Mercy Corps

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Gazans, Caught Between Two Sides of a Stalemate

For the past several years, Gaza has suffered from a humanitarian crisis that waxes and wanes in severity, but never entirely disappears.

An Israeli checkpoint in Nablus, West Bank. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidortmann/2843381227/">David Ortmann (flickr)</a>

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Economic Improvements in West Bank = Political Gains for Palestinians?

Since Israel relaxed West Bank checkpoints in June, there's been a newfound sense of both security and economic freedom for the struggling Palestinian territory, according to the New York Times' Thomas Friedman.

More Gazans depend on food aid, thanks to the blockade. Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps

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Blockade Threatens to Worsen Food Crisis

The Christian Science Monitor reports that the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza strip is crippling the Gazan fishing industry.

A Palestinian man looks out towards destroyed buildings following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/farshadebrahimi/3159835222/in/photostream/">Amir Farshad Ebrahimi (flickr)</a>

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Gazans Digging To Survive

A stated aim of Israel's military strikes in Gaza was to destroy underground tunnels between Egypt and Gaza because they're used by Hamas to smuggle in weapons.

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Adding Resilience as a Tool to Address Food Crises

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has developed a new tool to measure the state of a country's food system and its ability to withstand global shocks.

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Mercy Corps Aid Delivery Reaches Gaza

Despite Israel’s commitment to establishing a humanitarian corridor and daily three-hour ceasefire, delivering humanitarian supplies to the Gaza Strip has been a challenge.