As Chile’s large Palestinian community seeks to strengthen economic ties with its homeland.

Chile’s free market pension system (AFP) will be replicated in Palestine, according to Bank of Palestine president, Hashim Shawa, who also announced a swath of projects aimed at strengthening economic ties between Chile and Palestine.

palestine pensionChile has the largest Palestinian population outside of the Middle East. Photo by antitetzo/Flickr.Login to read more.

About the writer

Joe Hinchliffe

Joe is from Brisbane, arguably the greatest city in Australia outside of Melbourne and Sydney and not including the capital, which no one outside the country has heard of anyway. He studied journalism and geography at the University of Queensland. In 2009 he left to do his last year of study on exchange at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He has lived in Santiago since mid-2010.

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