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Economics of 'Policy-Induced' Fragmentation: The Costs of Closures Regime to West Bank and Gaza

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  • Sebnem Akkaya
  • Norbert Fiess
  • Bartlomiej Kaminski
  • Gael Raballand

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Israeli security measures, which were increased in response to the Intifada in 2000, have imposed a major cost on the economy of the West Bank and Gaza, and are heavily undercutting its current and future developmental capacity. The closures regime - the multi-faceted system of restrictions on the movement of goods and people both within the West Bank and Gaza and through Israel to the rest of the world - along with construction of the “Separation Barrier” have fragmented the West Bank’s and Gaza’s economic space, and have further reduced their productive potential. The aim of this paper is to estimate the economic costs of the closures regime on the Palestinian economy.

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  • Sebnem Akkaya & Norbert Fiess & Bartlomiej Kaminski & Gael Raballand, "undated". "Economics of 'Policy-Induced' Fragmentation: The Costs of Closures Regime to West Bank and Gaza," Working Papers 2008_09, Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow.
    • Handle: RePEc:gla:glaewp:2008_09
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    1. Agbahey, Johanes & Siddig, Khalid & Grethe, Harald & Boysen, Ole, 2016. "Consequences of conflict: the impact of the closure regime on the West Bank’s economy," Conference papers 332728, Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project.
    2. Botta, Alberto, 2010. "The Palestinian economy and its trade pattern: Stylised facts and alternative modelling strategies," MPRA Paper 29719, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Alberto Botta & Gianni Vaggi, 2012. "A Post-Keynesian Model of the Palestinian Economy: The Economics of an Investment-Constrained Economy," Review of Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(2), pages 203-226, April.
    4. Ziv Bar-Nahum & Israel Finkelshtain & Rico Ihle & Ofir D. Rubin, 2020. "Effects of violent political conflict on the supply, demand and fragmentation of fresh food markets," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 12(3), pages 503-515, June.
    5. Agbahey Johanes & Siddig Khalid & Grethe Harald & McDonald Scott, 2020. "Labor exports from Palestine to Israel: a boon or bane for the West Bank economy?," IZA Journal of Labor Policy, Sciendo & Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), vol. 10(1), pages 1-25, March.
    6. Johanes Agbahey & Khalid Siddig & Harald Grethe, 2016. "Consequences of conflict: the impact of the closure regime on the economy of the West Bank economy," EcoMod2016 9197, EcoMod.

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