Summary
The process by which an economy contracts and its infrastructure regresses under isolationist policies, as Tareq Baconi applies Sara Roy’s term to the Gaza Strip in Chapter 2 of Rethinking Statehood in Palestine (Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, PDF p.84).
Details
- Gaza suffered decades of de-development, whereby its economy had contracted and its infrastructure regressed as a result of Israel’s isolationist policies towards the strip, which officially began following the Oslo Accords; the post-2007 blockade’s rapid economic deterioration was compounded by this history (PDF p.84, Chapter 2 n.73, citing Roy, The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development, 1995, and Failing Peace, 2007).
- Baconi also draws on Roy’s “De-development Revisited: Palestinian Economy and Society since Oslo”, Journal of Palestine Studies 28, no. 3 (1999): 64-82, for the Oslo years’ effect on the Palestinian economy (Chapter 2 n.20).
Related pages
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, Gaza, Gaza Siege, Tareq Baconi