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...
Main Authors: | van der Weide, Roy, Rijkers, Bob, Blankespoor, Brian, Abrahams, Alexei |
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
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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 |
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