Under siege: Closure, separation and the Palestinian economy

Middle East Report

Volumn 30, Issue 217, 2000, Pages 22-25

  Farsakh, Leila ^a  

^a Trans Arab Research Institute (TARI)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATIONAL ECONOMY; POLITICAL CONFLICT; POPULAR PROTEST;

PALESTINE;

EID: 0034485077     PISSN: 08992851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1520169     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. UNSCO, The Impact on the Palestinian Economy of the Recent Confrontations, Mobility Restriction and Border Closures (October 2000). These figures assume a 50 percent reduction in normal economic activities.
2. Financial Times, November 6, 2000. Labor statistics are available at: http://www.pcbs.org/english/labor/lab_curr.htm
3. Ishac Diwan and Radwan Shaban, Development Under Adversity (Washington, DC: World Bank, 1999)
4. and World Bank, Poverty in West Bank and Gaza, unpublished report, 2000.
5. Leila Farsakh, Palestinian Labor Flows to Israel: 1967-1998 (Ramallah: MAS, 1998).
6. Diwan and Shaban. Other estimates include foregone potential income-generating opportunities, for a total loss of $6.4 billion. Center for Economic and Social Research, The Palestinian Economy Under Oslo (New York: 2000).
7. C. Astrup and S. Dessus, Trade Options for the Palestinian Economy (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2000).
8. UNSCO, Special Report on Palestinian Merchandise Trade (Spring 2000).
9. PCBS, Labor Force Surveys. See also http://www.pcbs.org/english/labor/lab_curr.htm
10. UNSCO work permit database and Foundation for Middle East Peace, Report on Settlements in the Occupied Territories 10/4 (July-August 2000). These figures exclude growth in settlements in East Jerusalem.
11. MAS, Economic Monitor 5 (1999)
12. and UNCTAD, Palestinian Merchandise Trade in the 1990s (1998).
13. MAS, Economic Monitor 6 (2000).
14. Palestinian Authority, West Bank and Gaza Economic Policy Framework Progress Report, presented to the secretariat of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, Lisbon, June 7-8, 2000.