The economic dimensions of prolonged occupation
Subtitle: continuity and change in Israeli policy towards the Palestinian economy : a special report commemorating twenty-five years of UNCTAD's programme of assistance to the Palestinian people
By: Raja Khalidi and Sahar Taghdisi-Rad
Contributors: Taghdisi-Rad, Sahar; United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Publisher: United Nations
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York; Geneva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Außenhandel; Foreign economic relations; Arab-Israeli conflict; Economic policy; Relations économiques internationales
Other titles: Continuity and change in Israeli policy towards the Palestinian economy : a special report commemorating twenty-five years of UNCTAD's programme of assistance to the Palestinian people; Special report commemorating twenty-five years of UNCTAD's programme of assistance to the Palestinian people
Description: "Drawing on the findings of UNCTAD's annual reports since 1985 on the Palestinian economy under occupation, this review examines whether the "new" Israeli "economic peace" initiatives differ in essence from previous Israeli strategies towards the economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. A coherent argument emerges, which, firstly, highlights a strong continuity in Israeli policy affecting the economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (despite the changing strategies deployed). Secondly, this analysis calls for a bold departure from conventional "Palestinian economic policy wisdom", which has left unchallenged the context, frameworks and policies of occupation, and which has advanced economic policy prescriptions oblivious to the impact of prolonged conflict. An alternative policy framework is needed, which recognizes the realities of the Palestinian economy and of what has been learnt of the uncomfortable truths about the incompatibility between occupation and development."--P. 1.
Notes: At head of title: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

"August 2009."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-[32]).

Full text available online via UNCTAD web site.
Table of contents: title: I. Occupation, sovereignty and development; title: II. Israeli policies towards the Palestinian economy in the 1980s; title: III. Israeli policies of the early 1990s: the Gulf War and separationism; title: IV. The Paris Protocol: a quasi customs union; title: V. The "skewed integration" of the 1990s: development under occupation?; title: VI. The second intifada and the dysfunctional Paris Protocol since 2001; title: VII. Israeli "economic peace" or a Palestinian economic strategy for peace?