The School of Oriental and African Studies - University of London

Overview

Study

Thesis title:

Linkages and Agency in the Palestinian Economy: Missing Linkages, Missing Agency, or both?

Internal Supervisors

• Graham Dyer
• Mushtaq Khan

Combining elements of both economic theory (input-output analysis) and social theory (structure and agency), the research studies the shape and location of forward and backward linkages in the Palestinian economy, as well as their social and political foundations.
The thesis explores how Israel's occupation acts as the main structure within which Palestinian capitalists had to operate and probes whether the highly constricted, but existing, agency of Palestinian capitalists further exacerbated or mitigated the adverse structure.
Thereby, the thesis aims to show the actual fragmentation and disarticulation of the Palestinian economy and uses the results to make predictions on the viability of the Palestinian economy under current political configurations.

PhD Publications

“Why aid failed”, The Palestinian Yearbook of International Law 2006-2007, Vol. 14, forthcoming (2008) (Book review)

“A Rejoinder to Khalidi’s ‘Reshaping Palestinian Economic Policy Discourse’: The Elusive Quest for Change”, Journal of Palestine Studies, Winter 2006, Vol. 35, No. 2: 243-245

Co-organizer of academic conference “The Economy and Economics of Palestine: Past, Present and Future” that was held in January 2007 at SOAS