Nablus is an agricultural and commercial trade centre dealing in traditional industries such as production of soap, olive oil, and handicrafts. Other industries include furniture production, tile production, stone quarrying, textile manufacturing and leather tanning. The city is also a regional trading centre for live produce. It has an industrial city where investments have focussed on  food industries, textile and clothes, shoes, leather, printing and publishing, chemical industries, plastic industries, high technical industries.

Services in Nablus:

Education:

The number of school students  in Nablus reached 78962, 40186 are males while 38776 are females, they constituted 8.87% of Palestine students.

Health:

There are 4 hospitals in Nablus, 2 are governmental and the number of doctors is 97. The number of the beds is 123.There are also 57 care centres.

The city's unemployment rates have increased dramatically in recent years, rising from 14.2% in 1997 to an estimate of 60% in 2004. It is estimated that the unemployment in the old city and in the refugee camps is as high as 80%. Due to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the city was closed off by the IOF. The city's encirclement with checkpoints is cited by the United Nations as a reason for high unemployment and a "devastated" economy. Other sources cite mismanagement by the Palestinian Authority as a contribution to the poor state of the economy. Additionally, with the arrival of Palestinian Authority in mid 1990s, banks and other economic firms were ordered to transfer their West Bank headquarters to Ramallah, the undeclared capital of the Palestinian Authority. Israeli checkpoints around Nablus restrict travel of residents to and from the city, and for a time there was a ban on vehicles, only pedestrians can cross checkpoints. 

Map of Nablus closures: