## West Bank and Gaza Strip: Recent Economic Developments and Prospects and Progress in Institution Building: Background Paper Issued in Connection with the 1995 Article IV Consultation with Israel

_IMF Staff Country Reports, November 7, 1995_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: November 7, 1995
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451840629.002

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### Institutional arrangements and structural features
- Reviews institutional arrangements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS).
- Examines structural features of the WBGS economy during the 1990s.

### Macroeconomic developments and prospects (1990s)
- Reviews macroeconomic developments and prospects during the 1990s.
- Discusses real GNP and related macroeconomic indicators as part of the assessment (term preserved from source: "real GNP").

### IMF technical assistance and capacity building
- Describes technical assistance provided by IMF staff in response to requests from the Palestinian Authority and the donor community in the areas of:
  - fiscal policy and administration
  - banking
  - statistics
  - training

### IMF–World Bank collaboration and donors’ financial assistance
- Presents a review of IMF–World Bank collaboration.
- Presents a review of donors’ financial assistance to the WBGS.

### Subject areas covered
- Banking
- Budget planning and preparation
- Expenditure
- Labor
- National accounts
- Private investment
- Public financial management (PFM)
- Public investment spending

### Keywords (as listed)
- Budget planning and preparation
- CR
- donor community
- Eastern Europe
- fund staff
- government
- ISCR
- PA authority
- PA Finance Ministry
- PA policy
- PA revenue
- Private investment
- private sector investment
- Public investment spending
- real GNP
- staff

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