Raja Khalidi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4915529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raja Khalidi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raja |
| FAMILY NAME | Khalidi |
| SIGNATURE | KHALIDI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Economic Policy Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction
This special issue of Omran brings together contributions produced within a joint research project between the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS). The project was carried out by MAS’s research team, in collaboration with external scholars, under the academic supervision of the ACRPS. The issue responds to the urgent need to move beyond fragmented treatments of Israeli set…
The Cost of Israeli Settlement on the Palestinian People
This article reviews the existing literature on the economic costs of the Israeli occupation for the Palestinian people from 1948–2022, in order to build a methodology that can estimate the total cost. The study proposes three methodologies of estimation: aggregation, counterfactual, and occupation gains, whereby the methodology selection is contingent on the economic variables under estimation. Updating the cost estimates from previous studies r…
De-Mystifying the Decolonization of Palestine
This essay reviews three contributions to a growing critical literature on Palestine political economy, pushing the analytical envelope that had prevailed for decades, powered by a ‘new wave’ of mainly Palestinian scholars. These seek to situate the struggle in a broader ‘inter-sectional’ framework (analysing the combined impacts of settler colonialism, racialism, capitalism and indigeneity, among other concepts) that identifies with, and explici…
Nation and Class
After a century of confrontation with Zionist settler colonialism, the triumph of capitalism and unfettered marketization without justice and national rights for Palestine appears an irresistible and assured process. The Palestinian ruling class and Arab, international, and Israeli forces have sustained belief in a peace process that for a generation has persuaded or coerced Palestinians living in exile and within Israeli colonial dominion to del…
What Is the “Palestinian Economy”?
Palestinian economic development can be reframed within the context of a century-old conflict between Palestinian national self-determination and the Zionist nationalist project. My alternative narrative concurs that the “Palestinian economy” is one of two distinct economic models which coexist within the historic territory of Palestine but without any pretense of parity or catching-up. One is the globalized, industrialized, financialized Jewish …
Twenty-First Century Palestinian Development Studies
Within the wide range of research and studies about Palestinian development, especially in the past twenty years, a new school of literature has recently emerged, drawing on heterodox economic and social science, settler-colonial studies, and the widening critique of neoliberalism. Studies in this issue of JPS are a selection of the intellectual output of a younger generation of scholars who have challenged the thrust of preceding literature prod…
The Debate about Kerry's Economic Initiative
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRaja KhalidiRaja Khalidi is a Palestinian development economist who served with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) from 1985-2013. He currently lives and works as an independent researcher in Palestine
Neoliberalism as Liberation
The Palestinian statehood-by-2011 program, framed through neoliberal institution building, redefines and diverts the Palestinian liberation struggle. Focusing on its economic aspects, and in particular the underlying neoliberal thought that goes beyond narrow economic policy applications, this essay argues that the program cannot succeed either as the midwife of independence or as a strategy for Palestinian economic development. Its weaknesses, t…
Sixty years after the UN Partition Resolution
Despite the expectations of economic theory, a century of Arab-Jewish economic interaction in Palestine has not led to the convergence that is supposed to result from exchange between a capital-rich economy and a labor-intensive one. After 60 years of failed integration, the Arab population in Israel has fallen to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. With the Palestinian ““regional economies”” in Israel and the occupied territories operating a…
R eshaping P alestinian E conomic P olicy D iscourse
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRaja KhalidiRaja Khalidi is a senior economist with the United Nations secretariat. The views expressed herein are his alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the UN
Basic Needs
Basic Needs
Palestinians in Israel
Palestinians in Israel
The Economics of Political Surival
The Economics of Political Surival: Palestine: An Economy of Resistance in the West Bank and Gaza, (in French), Antoine Mansour, with a preface by Michel Chatelus." Journal of Palestine Studies, 14(4), pp. 153–154
The Economics of Political Surival
The Arab Economy in Israel
This study aims at discerning the extent to which Arab economic behavior is effectively separate from that of the Israeli economy as a whole: is the Arab sector simply a regional or "national" branch of the Israeli economy, or does it rest on foundations which are distinctive and autonomous? Viability then becomes the relevant and pressing question
Neoliberalism as Liberation
The Palestinian statehood-by-2011 program, framed through neoliberal institution building, redefines and diverts the Palestinian liberation struggle. Focusing on its economic aspects, and in particular the underlying neoliberal thought that goes beyond narrow economic policy applications, this essay argues that the program cannot succeed either as the midwife of independence or as a strategy for Palestinian economic development. Its weaknesses, t…
Twenty-First Century Palestinian Development Studies
Within the wide range of research and studies about Palestinian development, especially in the past twenty years, a new school of literature has recently emerged, drawing on heterodox economic and social science, settler-colonial studies, and the widening critique of neoliberalism. Studies in this issue of JPS are a selection of the intellectual output of a younger generation of scholars who have challenged the thrust of preceding literature prod…
Sixty years after the UN Partition Resolution
Despite the expectations of economic theory, a century of Arab-Jewish economic interaction in Palestine has not led to the convergence that is supposed to result from exchange between a capital-rich economy and a labor-intensive one. After 60 years of failed integration, the Arab population in Israel has fallen to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. With the Palestinian ““regional economies”” in Israel and the occupied territories operating a…
The Economics of Political Surival
The Economics of Political Surival: Palestine: An Economy of Resistance in the West Bank and Gaza, (in French), Antoine Mansour, with a preface by Michel Chatelus." Journal of Palestine Studies, 14(4), pp. 153–154
Nation and Class
After a century of confrontation with Zionist settler colonialism, the triumph of capitalism and unfettered marketization without justice and national rights for Palestine appears an irresistible and assured process. The Palestinian ruling class and Arab, international, and Israeli forces have sustained belief in a peace process that for a generation has persuaded or coerced Palestinians living in exile and within Israeli colonial dominion to del…
R eshaping P alestinian E conomic P olicy D iscourse
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRaja KhalidiRaja Khalidi is a senior economist with the United Nations secretariat. The views expressed herein are his alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the UN
The Arab Economy in Israel
This study aims at discerning the extent to which Arab economic behavior is effectively separate from that of the Israeli economy as a whole: is the Arab sector simply a regional or "national" branch of the Israeli economy, or does it rest on foundations which are distinctive and autonomous? Viability then becomes the relevant and pressing question
The Economics of Political Surival
The Economics of Political Surival: Palestine: An Economy of Resistance in the West Bank and Gaza, (in French), Antoine Mansour, with a preface by Michel Chatelus." Journal of Palestine Studies, 14(4), pp. 153–154
The Economics of Political Surival
Palestinians in Israel
Palestinians in Israel
Basic Needs
Basic Needs
R eshaping P alestinian E conomic P olicy D iscourse
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRaja KhalidiRaja Khalidi is a senior economist with the United Nations secretariat. The views expressed herein are his alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the UN
Sixty years after the UN Partition Resolution
Despite the expectations of economic theory, a century of Arab-Jewish economic interaction in Palestine has not led to the convergence that is supposed to result from exchange between a capital-rich economy and a labor-intensive one. After 60 years of failed integration, the Arab population in Israel has fallen to the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. With the Palestinian ““regional economies”” in Israel and the occupied territories operating a…
Neoliberalism as Liberation
The Palestinian statehood-by-2011 program, framed through neoliberal institution building, redefines and diverts the Palestinian liberation struggle. Focusing on its economic aspects, and in particular the underlying neoliberal thought that goes beyond narrow economic policy applications, this essay argues that the program cannot succeed either as the midwife of independence or as a strategy for Palestinian economic development. Its weaknesses, t…
The Debate about Kerry's Economic Initiative
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRaja KhalidiRaja Khalidi is a Palestinian development economist who served with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) from 1985-2013. He currently lives and works as an independent researcher in Palestine
Twenty-First Century Palestinian Development Studies
Within the wide range of research and studies about Palestinian development, especially in the past twenty years, a new school of literature has recently emerged, drawing on heterodox economic and social science, settler-colonial studies, and the widening critique of neoliberalism. Studies in this issue of JPS are a selection of the intellectual output of a younger generation of scholars who have challenged the thrust of preceding literature prod…
What Is the “Palestinian Economy”?
Palestinian economic development can be reframed within the context of a century-old conflict between Palestinian national self-determination and the Zionist nationalist project. My alternative narrative concurs that the “Palestinian economy” is one of two distinct economic models which coexist within the historic territory of Palestine but without any pretense of parity or catching-up. One is the globalized, industrialized, financialized Jewish …
Nation and Class
After a century of confrontation with Zionist settler colonialism, the triumph of capitalism and unfettered marketization without justice and national rights for Palestine appears an irresistible and assured process. The Palestinian ruling class and Arab, international, and Israeli forces have sustained belief in a peace process that for a generation has persuaded or coerced Palestinians living in exile and within Israeli colonial dominion to del…
De-Mystifying the Decolonization of Palestine
This essay reviews three contributions to a growing critical literature on Palestine political economy, pushing the analytical envelope that had prevailed for decades, powered by a ‘new wave’ of mainly Palestinian scholars. These seek to situate the struggle in a broader ‘inter-sectional’ framework (analysing the combined impacts of settler colonialism, racialism, capitalism and indigeneity, among other concepts) that identifies with, and explici…
Introduction
This special issue of Omran brings together contributions produced within a joint research project between the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) and the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS). The project was carried out by MAS’s research team, in collaboration with external scholars, under the academic supervision of the ACRPS. The issue responds to the urgent need to move beyond fragmented treatments of Israeli set…
The Cost of Israeli Settlement on the Palestinian People
This article reviews the existing literature on the economic costs of the Israeli occupation for the Palestinian people from 1948–2022, in order to build a methodology that can estimate the total cost. The study proposes three methodologies of estimation: aggregation, counterfactual, and occupation gains, whereby the methodology selection is contingent on the economic variables under estimation. Updating the cost estimates from previous studies r…
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