Public Expenditure Review of the Palestinian Authority: Policy Priorities Amid a Spiraling Fiscal Crisis

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Public Expenditure Review of the Palestinian Authority: Policy Priorities Amid a Spiraling Fiscal Crisis

dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.date.accessioned	2025-06-12T19:05:26Z
dc.date.available	2025-06-12T19:05:26Z
dc.date.issued	2025-06-12
dc.description.abstract	Just like every other socio-economic dimension, also the fiscal situation in West Bank and Gaza is shaped by its fragility, conflict and violence (FCV) context. It is difficult to overstate the impact that the Israeli occupation imposes on the economy of the West Bank and Gaza. Along with the recurrent violence,the most important obstacles to Palestinian growth and private-sector development continue to be the Israeli restrictions on movement, economic activity, and access to resources in the West Bank, and the near-total blockade of Gaza since 2007. As such, these factors fundamentally undermine the macroeconomic foundations needed to achieve fiscal sustainability. These constraints are amplified by Israel’s control of the Palestinian borders and of vast swathes of its territory (Area C) which greatly limit the Palestinian ability to collect taxes and conduct an independent and sound fiscal policy. These limitations, in addition to the internal political divide between the West Bank and Gaza, cause the Palestinian Authority (PA) to face a situation of permanent fiscal emergency. Fiscal revenues are structurally unable to cover the large public expenditures needed to maintain the economy and the society afloat. Hence the PA has to rely on foreign aid in order to bridge the financing gap.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099061125101529564
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1596/43330
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43330
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.rights	CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subject	WEST BANK AND GAZA
dc.subject	FCV
dc.subject	PUBLIC FINANCE
dc.title	Public Expenditure Review of the Palestinian Authority	en
dc.title.subtitle	Policy Priorities Amid a Spiraling Fiscal Crisis	en
dc.type	Report
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2025-06-12
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-06-14T02:09:55.619396Z
okr.date.lastmodified	2025-06-12T18:05:30Z	en
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work::Public Expenditure Review
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099061125101529564
okr.guid	099061125101529564
okr.identifier.docmid	P500604-64aeba13-ba2a-4b7d-a07b-5f7ecd93cb39
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	40020909
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	40020909
okr.identifier.report	202216
okr.import.id	7668
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okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	https://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099061125101529564/pdf/P500604-64aeba13-ba2a-4b7d-a07b-5f7ecd93cb39.pdf	en
okr.region.administrative	Middle East and North Africa
okr.region.country	West Bank and Gaza
okr.topic	Conflict and Development::Conflict and Fragile States
okr.topic	Finance and Financial Sector Development::Access to Finance
okr.unit	Pros-MNA-Econ Policy-MacroFiscal (EMNMT)