Category: Economy

Q: Could you give a brief description of your company? The Renewable Energy Corporation (REC) was established in Norway 1996 as a silicon-wafer manufacturer. After a number of years with impressive growth rates, the company became the world’s largest multi-crystalline wafer manufacturer. The promising future of the solar business initiated investments into cell and module plants in Scandinavia. Given the background of the growing demand for the wafer raw material, the company decided to invest further into a silicon…

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Text:UNCTAD Photos: Action Press/Virot Mr Mahmoud A.T. Elkhafif, Coordinator Assistance to the Palestinian People at Unctad presented a report during a press conference at the Palais des Nations The report says that while 9.9% economic growth was achieved in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) in 2011, the figure is misleading, and long-term prospects for the OPT economy in fact have grown worse. It contends that most of the economic growth was related to reconstruction in the blockaded Gaza Strip…

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