http://blogs.worldbank.org/arabvoices/jobs-crisis-palestine-needs-innovative-response
I was reading the above article about the Palestinian job crises to find out the analysis isn’t deep enough to show the special situation we have.
I am running an industrial facility in Jenin with 27 workers and there is much more to tell than in the article. It’s hell more complicated.
The political Schizophrenia we live on the ground is the driven force of the situation; state/stateless , free economy/ voll dependence on Israel, democracy/elite wealth-authority , law/no law application , justice issue/ corruption, national struggle /division and refusal of national leadership .. the list is longer. What kind of economy or plans can you run in this situation?
We dammed lack of any integral national political strategy where changes can be applied.
For example Education ; we need strong professional vocational education instead of western structured universities where they educate stuff we don’t need or can’t be applied but just to get an expensive degree.
Parents and young people plan unemployment.
For my factory I rarely can find carpenters for example and couldn’t improve capacity the past 5 years. But you can find tones of accountants, marketing , engineers ..
Investment is getting worthless in this manufacturing sector!
Law wages under Paris agreement …
It force young graduated to work in Israel or aboard.
We pay for petrol, electricity and many other basic needs like Israel but minimal wage is 1450 nis (less than 400 usd) a month. Many are even paid less. I know pharmacists earn 200 usd a month. Who is motivated to work for this little amount of money?
For many reasons employers are not able to pay more for different reasons.
I guess who wrote the article thinks Palestine is Ramallah. Come to the north of West Bank!
We live in a world where meanings of money, Job and work is changing but our old fashion leadership is struggling with old tactics to tackle the situation and reproducing the issue!

