ESCWA Publication: E/ESCWA/UNDP/2024/Policy brief.1
Country: State of Palestine
Publication Type: Policy briefs
Cluster: Governance and Conflict Prevention
Focus Area: Governance & enabling environment
Initiatives: Addressing multidimensional poverty
SDGs: Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Keywords: Economic aspects, Gross domestic product, Human development, Humanitarian assistance, Macroeconomics, Poverty, Social aspects, State of palestine, Statistical data, Territories occupied by israel, Unemployment, Violent deaths, War victims, War on gaza
Gaza war: expected socioeconomic impacts on the State of Palestine
May 2024
This policy brief provides an update of the ESCWA-UNDP joint initial rapid assessment titled ‘The Gaza War: Expected Socio-Economic Impacts on the State of Palestine’, which was released in November 2023 and estimated the impacts of the war on the State of Palestine and on Gaza, for the first three months. Using ESCWA computable general equilibrium (CGE) model simulation the updated assessment estimates the impacts at six months, with projections for seven-, eight- and nine-months scenarios of war on major social and economic indicators including on GDP, poverty, unemployment, as well as on the human development index. The brief also includes figures and projections related to the scale of death and destruction, prospective reconstruction, and its inter-generational effects.
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This policy brief provides an update of the ESCWA-UNDP joint initial rapid assessment titled ‘The Gaza War: Expected Socio-Economic Impacts on the State of Palestine’, which was released in November 2023 and estimated the impacts of the war on the State of Palestine and on Gaza, for the first three months. Using ESCWA computable general equilibrium (CGE) model simulation the updated assessment estimates the impacts at six months, with projections for seven-, eight- and nine-months scenarios of war on major social and economic indicators including on GDP, poverty, unemployment, as well as on the human development index. The brief also includes figures and projections related to the scale of death and destruction, prospective reconstruction, and its inter-generational effects.
