الترخيص الصناعي في الضفة الغربية: الواقع والدور المرتقب في إحداث تنمية صناعية

This study deals with the policy of manufacture licensing in Palestine, and the affect of this policy on the development of the manufacture sector. The study comprises seven chapters, the first of which illustrates the methodology of the study and its objectives. The second chapter of the study deals with the theoretical background of manufactural licensing, with focus on its goals. The "Open Market Policy" is presented as an alternative of the manufactural licensing system, in accordance to the theorists of this policy. This chapter also deals with the manufactural licensing system in the realistic, practical state, as it appears that this system may deviate from the goals it's supposed to achieve. The third chapter presents the Palestinian economic reality in general, and the state of the manufactural sector in Palestine, in particular. The fourth chapter studies the procedures of manufactural licensing carried out by The Ministry ofIndustry, and the legal succession of these procedures, beginning with the Ottoman era and up to the present Palestinian Authority. The chapter discuses the manner of evaluating the manufactural projects, the licenses required starting a manufactural project in Palestine and the different parties involved in the four licenses required. In addition, this chapter presents two models, Egypt and Jordan, in regard to manufactural licensing. The fifth chapter deals with the state of working manufactural firms regarding licensing, and its relevance to some general indicators such as capital, employment and geographical distribution of these firms. The sixth chapter studies the real reasons for not embarking upon manufactural licensing. After a random sample was selected,• focusing on the firms that have dangerous affects on the environment, a questionnaire was prepared and then filled by the working manufactural firms in the West Bank. The seventh and last chapter concludes the results and recommendations of the study. And it's worth mentioning that the data in the study was analyzed by using the quantitative and inductive method, as the data of the sixth chapter was entered to the statistical program "spss". Following are there sults concluded by the study: - Manufactural licensing is a method that can achieve important economic goals. - The Palestinian economy still suffers from systematic faults due to the long period of the Israeli occupation. - The Palestinian history is characterized by having a great diversity in the legal systems. Moreover, until this minute,the legal system in the West Bank differs from that in the Gaza Strip. - The manufactural licensing procedures currently used suffer from complexity, inflexibility, contradiction and repetition. - The Egyptian and Jordanian models,regarding manufactural licensing, are very rich and canb every inspiring to the Palestinian situation. - 60% of the Palestinian manufactures work without licenses, and exist in manufactural and non-manufactural areas as well. - There is a group of reasons that hinder embarking upon manufactural licensing.