Where Did Public Responsibility Centers' Expenditures in Palestine Go in 2022?

- · The short answer is that public expenditures for 2022 on an accrual basis were directed toward two main sectors in the country: the governance sector, which captured 49% of total public expenditures and amounted to 7,890 million shekels, with salaries and wages in this sector constituting 47% of these expenditures; while the social sector was the second recipient of public expenditures, accounting for about 46% and amounting to 7,432 million shekels, where salaries in this social sector comprised 54% of this sector's expenditures. Only two sectors remained: the housing sector, which received its share of public expenditures at 3% of total public expenditures for 2022, and the other sector was the economic sector, which represented about 2% of total public expenditures for 2022. Therefore, it is noticeable that there was almost no economic development in 2022; rather, government spending was limited to salaries and transfer expenditures in the two sectors that overwhelmingly received government disbursements....!

- The total aggregate public expenditures for 2022 on an (accrual basis) amounted to 16,198 million shekels (sixteen billion one hundred and ninety-eight million shekels), of which about 90% were distributed to the wages and salaries item at 8,114 million shekels, representing 50% of public expenditures for 2022, which is the largest item, followed by transfer expenditures whose outlays amounted to 3,086 million shekels, i.e., 19% of public expenditures, then the goods and services item which amounted to 2,724 million shekels, i.e., 17% of total expenditures for 2022, then the interest item 476 million shekels, i.e., 3% of total public expenditures, (Table No. 5b Statistics of the Ministry of Finance and Planning - Ramallah) - exchange rate: 1 dollar = 3.4 shekels

- Regarding the distribution of public expenditures by centers of responsibility, the highest was the Ministry of Education at approximately 21% of public expenditures, where its expenditures amounted to 3,475 million shekels (three billion four hundred and seventy-five million shekels). It was followed by the Ministry of Interior and National Security, at 18% of total public expenditures for 2022, where its expenditures amounted to 2,882 shekels (two billion eight hundred and eighty-two shekels), which is the highest expenditure within the governance sector; then the Ministry of Health with 15% of public expenditures amounting to 2,432 million shekels; next came pension allocations for retirees at 9% of total public expenditures for 2022 on an accrual basis, amounting to 1,518 million shekels; then the institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), at 5%, where their expenditures amounted to 762 million shekels; then the financial sector Ministry of Finance and Planning (interest and fuel subsidies) at 5%, where its expenditures amounted to 793 million shekels...

- When distributing total public expenditures on an (accrual basis) for 2022 across the sectors, the details were as follows:

· First: Governance sector : The governance sector's share of public expenditures for 2022 on an (accrual basis) was 7,890 million shekels (seven billion eight hundred and ninety million shekels), i.e. 49% of total expenditures in 2022, where salaries for the governance sector amounted to (3,708 million shekels, meaning that the share of salaries in the governance sector's total expenditures in 2022 was 47%). The goods and services expenditures of the governance sector amounted to 855 million shekels, i.e., 11% of governance sector expenditures. Interest expenses attributed to the governance sector (the financial sector) amounted to 476 million shekels, i.e., 6%. Transfer expenditures amounted to 2,117 million shekels, i.e., 27% of governance sector expenditures. (Expenditures of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) institutions are part of the governance sector's transfer expenditures, amounting to 450 million shekels, in addition to pension allocations for retirees from the governance sector's transfer expenditures, which amounted to 1,518 million shekels)..!

- Expenditures of the General Authority for Crossings and Borders amounted to 165 million shekels from governance sector expenditures.. and embassies at 212 million shekels,

- The expenditures of the Ministry of Interior and National Security, at 2,882 shekels (two billion eight hundred and eighty-two shekels), were the highest in the governance sector, and constituted 37% of governance sector expenditures, which in turn represented 18% of total public expenditures in 2022 on an accrual basis. Salaries in the Ministry of Interior and National Security for 2022 constituted 78% of the Ministry of Interior and National Security's expenditures for 2022 on an accrual basis..!

- The Administrative Court and the High Judiciary at 117 million shekels

- Institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) at 762 million shekels, of which 143 million shekels are salaries and wages,

- As for the financial sector within the governance sector (Ministry of Finance and Planning), its expenditures amounted to 793 million shekels, of which salaries were 109 million shekels, while pension allocations for retirees amounted to 1,518 million shekels.

· Second: Social sector: The social sector's share of public expenditures for 2022 on an accrual basis amounted to 7,432 million shekels (seven billion four hundred and thirty-two million shekels), i.e. 46% of total public expenditures for 2022. The Ministry of Education's share was 3,475 million shekels (three billion four hundred and seventy-five million shekels), i.e., 47% of social sector expenditures and 21.4% of total expenditures for 2022. As for the Ministry of Education's salaries, they amounted to 2,738 million shekels, i.e., 79% of total Ministry of Education expenditures..!

- It was followed by the Ministry of Health, whose share amounted to 2,432 million shekels, i.e., 33% of social sector expenditures and 15% of total public expenditures in 2022 (Ministry of Health salaries amounted to 934 million shekels), then the Ministry of Social Development whose share of expenditures amounted to 1,005 million shekels, i.e., 14% of total social sector expenditures and 6% of total public expenditures in 2022 (salaries of the Ministry of Social Development amounted to 62 million shekels), then the official Palestinian media sector at 200 million shekels (salaries 92 million shekels), then the Ministry of Awqaf at 125 million shekels (Ministry of Awqaf salaries amounting to 111 million shekels).

· Third: Housing sector : The housing sector's share of expenditures in 2022 on an accrual basis was 440 million shekels, i.e. (3% of total public expenditures in 2022), of which the Palestinian Water Authority received 154 million shekels, and the Ministry of Local Government received 119 million shekels.

· Fourth: Economic sector, its share of public expenditures for 2022 on an accrual basis was 435,248,000 shekels, (i.e., 2% of total public expenditures for 2022); of that, the Ministry of Agriculture received 153,321,000 shekels (Ministry of Agriculture salaries at 76,904,000 shekels