Political Economy of Aid in Conflict: An Analysis of Pre- and Post-Intifada Donor Behaviour in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

Economic Sectors	1999	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008^*
Agriculture and fishing	10.4	9.9	7.9	7.1	5.2	5.6	5.6	4.6
Mining, manufacturing, electricity and water	14.5	15.2	17	17.1	17	15	13.8	13.6
Construction	13.7	2.3	5	5.7	6.8	7.2	6.2	4.9
Wholesale and retail trade	11	10.9	9.8	9.8	9.4	9.6	9.2	10.8
Transport	5.9	9.9	4.6	6.1	5.8	6.6	7.5	8.9
Other services	19.5	22.8	22.8	22.8	23	19.6	22.2	25.2
Public administration and defence	11	13.6	16.9	14.3	14.1	15.7	13.9	13.9

Table 2

Donor Commitments and disbursements, 1998–2005 (US$ million). Source: Adapted from World Bank (2004: 65), undated using MoP Database, 2007.

	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2005
Regular (development) support	667	692	852	473	261	326	450
Emergency and budgetary support	0	0	121	755	1,266	1,078	850
Total commitment	667	692	973	1,228	1,527	1,404	1,300
Total disbursements	419	482	549	929	1,026	883	N/A

[i] Note: These exclude support to UNRWA’s regular budget.

Table 3

Pre-Intifada sectoral allocation of grants and loans to the WBGS, 1994–2000. Source: MoP database, 2007.

Sectors	Total Committed	Total Disbursed	Disbursement as percentage of Commitment
Agriculture	28,520,362	14,870,389	52
Budget Support	4,635,000	4,381,211	95
Education	114,779,769	89,310,207	78
Employment generation	2,232,000	10,704,387	480
Energy	86,465,560	79,440,278	92
Gender	11,133,366	5,187,156	47
Health	68,190,086	61,110,180	90
Human Rights /Civil Society /Democracy	118,619,815	73,091,456	62
Humanitarian Aid	68,325,199	45,765,059	67
Infrastructure	290,083,841	188,468,059	65
Institution-building	156,966,418	85,074,006	54
Multiple Sector	80,736,668	29,600,902	37
Private Sector Development	150,693,301	61,166,560	41
Solid Waste	21,681,968	9,560,921	44
Support to UNRWA	16,163,309	33,418,830	207
Tourism & Cultural Resources	27,261,839	24,695,559	91
Water and Sanitation	380,058,221	230,835,336	61
Youth	9,826,083	7,519,825	77
GRAND TOTAL	1,636,372,807	1,054,200,321	64

Table 4

Post-intifada sectoral allocation of grants and loans to the WBGS, 2000–2006. Source: MoP database, 2007.

Sectors	Total Committed	Total Disbursed	Disbursement as percentage of Commitment
Agriculture	31,072,735	30,516,091	98
Budget Support	1,449,641,295	1,458,610,006	101
Education	222,711,009	89,133,165	40
Employment generation	185,748,448	74,290,189	40
Energy	283,241,624	39,308,404	14
Gender	13,867,740	7,985,260	58
Health	186,194,585	94,888,064	51
Human Rights /Civil Society /Democracy	305,582,588	152,355,992	50
Humanitarian Aid	226,754,783	177,682,447	78
Infrastructure	370,574,322	258,206,518	70
Institution-building	356,337,300	231,464,686	65
Multiple Sector	132,291,606	96,088,137	73
Private Sector Development	148,821,630	95,665,881	64
Solid Waste	38,264,001	15,653,642	41
Support to UNRWA	1,093,834,981	1,054,230,036	96
Tourism & Cultural Resources	41,953,927	25,247,827	60
Water and Sanitation	388,495,753	215,306,666	55
Youth	37,615,266	6,922,161	18
GRAND TOTAL	5,513,003,594	4,123,555,172	75

Table 5

Donor support to the PA by major category (US$ million). Source: UNCTAD 2006: 37.

Category	1999–2000			2001–2004
Category	Total	Annual average	Share in total (in per cent)	Total	Annual average	Share in total (in per cent)
Development	930.5	465.2	88.1	1163.2	290.8	28.4
Emergency	99.0	49.5	9.4	1186.0	296.5	29.0
Budget support	24.2	13.6	2.6	1742.1	435.5	42.6
Total support	1056.6	528.3	100.0	4091.2	1022.8	100.0

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