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Obstacles on the Road to Palestinian Economic Growth

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dc.contributor.authorBlankespoor, Brian
dc.contributor.authorvan der Weide, Roy
dc.contributor.authorAbrahams, Alexei
dc.contributor.authorRijkers, Bob
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-30T19:25:45Z
dc.date.available2018-03-30T19:25:45Z
dc.date.issued2018-03
dc.description.abstractThis 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 exogenous temporal and spatial variation in accessibility. Minimum travel times between locality pairs are computed using road network and obstacles data supplemented with information on checkpoint traversal times. These are combined with population data to construct a time-varying market access measure for each locality. Market access has a significant and substantial effect on local light emissions. This association is robust to controlling for conflict, and strengthens when market access is instrumented by the number of obstacles located in a radius between 10 and 25km away from the locality.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/135611522172009978/Obstacles-on-the-road-to-Palestinian-economic-growth
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8385
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/29565
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 8385
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectMARKET ACCESS
dc.subjectINFRASTRUCTURE
dc.titleObstacles on the Road to Palestinian Economic Growthen
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okr.crossref.titleObstacles on the Road to Palestinian Economic Growth
okr.date.disclosure2018-03-27
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okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/135611522172009978/Obstacles-on-the-road-to-Palestinian-economic-growth
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8385
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-8385
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okr.region.administrativeMiddle East and North Africa
okr.region.countryWest Bank and Gaza
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okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Growth
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Theory & Research
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Markets and Market Access
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Spatial and Local Economic Development
okr.unitDevelopment Research Group; and the Development Data Group
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