Over the past two decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) has been sought by most, if not all, developing countries as a means of complementing the level of domestic investment, as well as securing economy-wide efficiency gains through the transfer of appropriate technology, management...

The study reviews the economic situation and its evolution in the West Bank and Gaza Strip over the past 30 years, since the start of the Israeli occupation in 1967, and then examines the existing economic and social situation, i.e. underdevelopment. After investigating the potential for its...