World Bank2025-10-212025-10-212025-10-06https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43878This Poverty Assessment provides a comprehensive update on poverty in the Palestinian territories, drawing on insights from the latest Palestinian Expenditure and Consumption Survey (PECS) and other data sources. The assessment focuses on the period between the two most recent PECS (2016/17–2023), but also draws on earlier data to examine historical trends and more recent data to briefly assess changes in living conditions as a result of the ongoing conflict. It offers a snapshot of living conditions, discusses the early impacts of the conflict, analyzes the spatial dimensions of poverty within the West Bank, and examines the connections between fiscal policy and poverty.en-USCC BY-NC 3.0 IGOCONFLICTFRAGMENTED CONTROLFISCAL POLICIESTAXES AND TRANSFERSReportWorld Bank