Work on this memorandum was financed by the Institute for Social and Economic Studies in the Middle East, at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, in the framework of its Refugee Project. The first draft was written in 1999. The present memorandum incorporates many of the comments made by Tayseer Abdel Jaber, Shmuel Amir, Isaac Diwan, Ephraim Kleiman, and Elias Tuma. I thank each of them. Revising the data set out in the 1999 paper, I modified the section on investment. For lack of updated data, economic figures date from 1995, and in order to adjust them to some future year, use was made of the annual growth rate of the refugee population (circa 3 per cent).
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Klinov, R. (2007). Reparations and Rehabilitation of Palestinian Refugees. In: Benvenisti, E., Gans, C., Hanafi, S. (eds) Israel and the Palestinian Refugees. Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, vol 189. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68161-8_12
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