De-development Revisited: Palestinian Economy and Society Since Oslo

1999 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Roy
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The West ◽  
Physical Separation ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
Palestinian Economy ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Emerging Pattern

The years since the Oslo agreement have seen a marked deterioration in Palestinian economic life and an accelerated de-development process. The key features of this process have been heightened by the effects of closure, the defining economic feature of the post-Oslo period. Among its results are enclavization, seen in the physical separation of the West Bank and Gaza; the weakening of economic relations between the Palestinian and Israeli economies; and growing divisions within the Palestinian labor market, with the related, emerging pattern of economic autarky. In the circumstances described, the prospects for sustained economic development are nonexistent and will remain so as long as closure continues.

scholarly journals The continued de-development of the Palestinian economy in the post-Oslo period

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Osama Hamed
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
The West ◽  
Oslo Accords ◽  
Israeli Government ◽  
Permanent Settlement ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
Palestinian Economy

The de-development of the Palestinian economy began in 1967, following Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS). Following the Oslo Accords of 1993, this de-development has continued. The WBGS remained dependent on the Israeli labor market for jobs until 2000, when Israel curtailed the flow of Palestinian labor to Israel following the 2000 intifada. This curtailment has resulted in sharp increases in unemployment and poverty rates in the WBGS. Closures and other actions taken by the Israeli government since 2000 have led to further de-development of the Palestinian economy. Although the WBGS has received substantial foreign aid in the post-Oslo period, the positive economic impact of such aid has been more than offset by the punitive measures taken by Israel in this period. It is highly unlikely that the Israeli government will allow the number of WBGS workers in Israel to return to its pre-2000 level. Hence, the revitalization of the Palestinian economy will require huge private investment. Such investment cannot be expected without a permanent settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that includes a Palestinian state with control over its borders and a strong link with diaspora Palestinians.

The Palestinian State: Division and Despair

2004 ◽  
Vol 103 (669) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Sara Roy
Keyword(s):  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
The West ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
Palestinian Economy

The tragic ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis shields a greater tragedy currently unfolding in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: the dismemberment of the Palestinian economy.

scholarly journals Application of Process Hierarchy Analysis as A Direction of Economic Development in West Coast District

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feri Hardani ◽  
Toto Gunarto ◽  
Neli Aida
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Development Process ◽  
The West ◽  
The People ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Hierarchy Analysis ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
People’S Perceptions

West Coast District as a district that has just been established must be able to catch up with progress in other areas, of course as a new district, the hope is that this area will expand so that the region can develop more independently and bring prosperity to the residents of the West Coast District, economic development can be done by through community aspirations or what is commonly referred to as community participation in development, so that in the development process the community is involved and the development implemented will be right on the recommendation. This study aims to determine how the perceptions of the people of the West Coast District regarding regional economic development, and which sectors want to become development priorities, with the great potential that the region has, namely tourism which is well known even to foreign countries, making people want the local government to make the tourism sector as a tourism sector. sectors that are prioritized for development. This study uses process hierarchy analysis (AHP), as a method to see people's perceptions of development.Keywords:Strategy; Region, Priority, Economic

scholarly journals Post-Oslo Palestinian (un)employment: A gender, class, and age-cohort analysis

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer C. Olmsted
Keyword(s):  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Cohort Analysis ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
The West ◽  
Palestinian Territories ◽  
Age Cohort ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
Palestinian Economy ◽  
Economic Ties ◽  
Number Of Authors

A strong Palestinian economy in the aftermath of the 1993 Oslo agreement has not materialized. This has had serious implications for employment outcomes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A number of authors have analyzed Palestinian labor markets during this period, but have focused almost exclusively on men's employment. This article examines changes in both women's and men's employment patterns in the post-Oslo period. It finds considerable shifts in the types of work that are available, with more educated, older men in particular gaining at the expense of youth, women, and less educated men. This, it is argued, is a function of Israeli, Palestinian, and U.S. policies. Economic ties between Israel and the Palestinian territories have been severed, to the detriment of less educated Palestinian men and women in search of employment. U.S. policies no doubt exacerbated this result, granting Jordan more favored trade status as part of the peace plan, thus contributing to the decline in the Palestinian textiles and apparel industries. The creation of a Palestinian public sector has led to some job creation, but primarily for more educated individuals, not those who were most likely to have lost their jobs in recent years.

scholarly journals LIBERALIZATION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AS A DRIVER OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND COMPETITIVENESS OF UKRAINE`S ECONOMY

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 77-82
Author(s):  
Olena Nesterenko
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
Long Time

For a long time theoretical representations and real actions of the reformers of the socio-economic system were in the plane of the orthodox neoclassical theory. At the same time, reformist rhetoric contained leading neo-liberal ideas, which substantially discredited them. The main task of the author is to restore the reputation of the neo-liberal economic doctrine as a whole and to prove the necessity of liberalizing the Ukrainian economy in particular. The article reveals the essence of the liberalization of economic life as a movement towards economic freedom in the broadest sense. The main ideological and philosophical content of liberalization is the strengthening of human-centered economic system, the transparency of economic relations, the humanization of the economic space, the institutionalization of interactions between all economic actors. In turn, the key economic and political dimension of liberalization can be represented by an integrated index of economic freedom, which assesses the level of real support for economic freedom by the relevant institutions and policies of the countries. The author analyzes the sources and factors of the expansion or limitation of the influence of state policy and institutions on economic freedom, which determine the level of socio-economic development of countries. It has been determined that countries that have formed relevant institutions and policies that promote economic freedom have higher levels of income, wealth, investment and more rapid economic growth.

Social Security Programmes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Challenges for the new Palestine

1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arnon A. Bar-On
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Social Security ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Gaza Strip ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Security System ◽  
The West ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
Palestinian Economy ◽  
The Gaza Strip

ABSTRACTOver the years during which Israel has occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian economy has become heavily dependent on wages earned in Israel. Yet Israel has done relatively little to modernise these territories' social security arrangements, or to enable Palestinian frontier workers to benefit from its own social security system. This article compares the occupational welfare, public assistance and health insurance programmes in the three entities, and suggests how they could be better organised to protect Palestinian workers and their families against daily contingencies which can decimate their economic security.

Intellectuals, Public Opinion, and Economic Development

1958 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Shils
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The West ◽  
Industrial Firms ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
The World ◽  
David Ricardo ◽  
The Church

Economic development in the West proceeded, until the latter part of the nineteenth century, without the aid of the intellectuals. Neither the innovators in technology nor the enterprisers and managers of industrial firms were highly educated, nor did they interest themselves in intellectual matters. The world of finance contained a few exceptions to this proposition, such as David Ricardo, Samuel Rogers, and George Grote, but it, too, moved without the aid of economists or other professional or avocational intellectuals. The graduates of universities stood aloof from the practical work of commerce and industry in their countries; they went into scholarship, into theology and the church, into administration (first in Germany and then gradually in the rest of the countries of Europe), into medicine and the law, but they did not enter into the central stream of the economic life of their countries.

Globalization, the Palestinian Economy, and the "Peace Process"

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adel Samara
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Foreign Capital ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
International Financial Institutions ◽  
Palestinian Authority ◽  
The West ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
West Bank And Gaza ◽  
Palestinian Economy

Notwithstanding the peace process, the areas of the West Bank and Gaza under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority remain dominated by Israeli economic policies and are subordinated to the prescriptions of international financial institutions, such as the World Bank and the IMF, which played a central role in designing the PA economy. The article concludes that the PA's unquestioning adoption of neoliberal economic policies favoring foreign capital at the expense of local capital has further weakened the local private sector and resulted in a kind of "development" that does not serve the population.

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