The report said the small Palestinian economy has slowly unraveled over nearly 20 years, with exports falling from 10 percent of the economy in 1994 to just 7 percent today, one of the world's lowest levels.


But there exists some hotels or other that are quite swanky and doing well and none of the children
suffer from malnourishment...not really!
On the other hand, if this is true..the Palestinians have no one to blame but themselves.

Pick your narrative.

However, if you read the actual report (which clearly you haven't), it's not quite that simple.

There are a host of different factors cited for the economic slowdown.

obligated to do so.

You have no such evidence I have not read it through..other than to imagine that if I had
I would surely agree with you.

One cannot provide evidence of a negative. I am confident that you have not read it. If you have, I apologize.

about 972 magazine threads. Your confidence is not my concern, I assure you.

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Just saying there are many factors influencing the Palestinian economy as the report indicates.

The 972mag dump is absurd, I agree.

In the end, it will not help Israel, with or without 972 Magazine.

Israeli-imposed economic restrictions and prolonged system of closures directly caused the long-term decline, the report says; however numbers seem positive in context of the global crisis.

By Amira Hass | Mar.12, 2013 | 11:46 AM

A World Bank report published ahead of a forum of donors to the Palestinian Authority to be held in Brussels next week warns of the continued deterioration of the Palestinian economy, one “that will have lasting and costly implications for economic competitiveness and social cohesion.”

The report called on the international community to consider not only the immediate fiscal stress of the Palestinian Authority, but also the long-term decline, caused directly by Israeli-imposed economic restrictions and the prolonged system of closures.

The report being published today, titled “Fiscal Challenges and Long Term Economic Costs,” summarizes the fiscal problems that characterized the recent year, including the world recession and the slowing of economic activity in Israel, higher than expected PA expenditures, lower than anticipated revenues, and a persistent shortfall in donor funding. Other factors mentioned in the report are large PA debts to banks and suppliers, delays in transferring custom rates collected by Israel, and delays in paying wages, which affected the quality of services and led to strikes and protests.

Still, the report determines that the Palestinian economy lost its competitiveness years ago, and that this trend will have long-term consequences. The report states that the PA’s substantial achievements in institution building are not enough to change the trend. The gross domestic product growth for the first three quarters of 2012 was 6.1 percent ? down from an average of 11 percent in 2010 and 2011. The growth in Gaza was 7.7 percent, compared to 15 percent in each of the two previous years, and in the West Bank, 5.5 percent compared to 9 percent in each of the two previous years.

Despite the decline, these numbers seem positive in comparison to other states and in the context of the global crisis ? a fact underlined by Israeli representatives in the forum of donors. The report fails to explain the seeming contradiction between the positive data and the negative overall review, but mentions that most of the growth was based on an increase of public sector activity, which lead to a substantial improvement of health, education and social services, in comparison to the years of direct Israeli rule.

‘Manufacturing stagnated since 1994’

in full: http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/world-bank-report-palestinian-economy-has-been-in-steady-decline-since-1994.premium-1.508770

... on missiles and ammo to kill Israeli civilians didn't help. Apparently, the writers of this report aren't Keynesians.

I'd appreciate it.