The Canadian PressJune 12, 2013 14:32
RAMALLAH, Palestine - The Palestinians this week replaced one internationally respected, U.S.-trained economist with another in hopes of solving long-running problems in the West Bank, including a drop in foreign aid, a crippling budget deficit and Israeli development restrictions.
But Mohammad Mustafa, who took over the economics portfolio from outgoing Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, acknowledged in an interview Wednesday that he has no radical new solutions, and at best can push harder to get a slightly better outcome.
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