Obstacles on the Road to Palestinian Economic Growth

This paper quantifies the impact of market access on local GDP in the West Bank, proxied by nighttime lights, using the deployment of road closure obstacles by the Israeli army between 2005 and 2012 as a quasi-natural experiment generating exogenou...

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Main Authors: van der Weide, Roy, Rijkers, Bob, Blankespoor, Brian, Abrahams, Alexei
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/135611522172009978/Obstacles-on-the-road-to-Palestinian-economic-growth
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29565