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Social Security Programmes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Challenges for the new Palestine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Arnon A. Bar-On
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Abstract

Over the years during which Israel has occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian economy has become heavily dependent on wages earned in Israel. Yet Israel has done relatively little to modernise these territories' social security arrangements, or to enable Palestinian frontier workers to benefit from its own social security system. This article compares the occupational welfare, public assistance and health insurance programmes in the three entities, and suggests how they could be better organised to protect Palestinian workers and their families against daily contingencies which can decimate their economic security.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , January 1996 , pp. 63 - 81
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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