Acknowledgements
This report was originally presented in May 2011 in Gaza City to TIDA-Gaza, and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Ramallah is thanked for covering expenses. It was also subsequently presented to the Gyeongsang University Institute for Social Sciences in Jinju, supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (NRF-2010-413-B00027). Additional material was also included in July 2011, in the light of emerging reactions from North Africa to the IMF.