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Irrigated Agriculture as Business Enterprise in Palestine |
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 This study aims to describe the small and medium irrigated agricultural sector in the West Bank. The study explores the problems facing this sector and suggests some policies that may contribute to solving them and in turn lead to the growth and development of this sector. The study concentrates on this sub-sector due to its significance in terms of productivity. In fact, the productivity of one irrigated dunum is known to be equal to about 28 times that of a rain-fed dunum.
In view of the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip which created problems specific to Gaza unlike the agricultural problems in the West Bank, this study will examine the small and medium agricultural enterprises in the West Bank only.
Employment in agriculture is characterized by family, seasonal, and part-time employment, making it difficult to classify agricultural holdings into small and medium according to the number of workers. The classification instead was made according to the area of the holdings: the small agricultural enterprise with 10 dunums or less and medium agricultural enterprise with 11-40 dunums. Holdings of more than 40 dunums were classified as large agricultural enterprises.
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Economic &Social Monitor 17 |
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 MAS’s Quarterly Social and Economic Monitor, Volume 17
This is volume 17 of the Quarterly Social and Economic Monitor produced by MAS in cooperation with the Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Palestinian Monitory Authority (PMA).
The Monitor provides statistical analysis of the data produced by the PCBS and the PMA, along with data taken from other international and local sources addressing the latest developments in the socio-economic environment in the West Bank and Gaza.
This volume highlights the main economic variables in the first quarter of 2009, in comparison to previous quarter: national accounts, labourr market, fiscal and monetary policies, banking and other sectors. The volume also covers specific topics including the results of the PCBS Survey on governance, independence of the judicial system, the condition of women, and education in Palestine. In addition to this, the socio-educational environment for children, along side the occupations influence on children, will be presented.
This volume contains three boxes; the first box addresses the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, the second presents findings from the recently held symposium at MAS discussing differences in the methodologies adopted by the World Bank, IMF and PCBS to forecast future economic growth in the Palestinian Territories. The third box presents a thorough analysis of the Public Finance and PA’s planned budget for 2009. Finally, the issue presents the third part of our series on theoretical topical issues in economics, Economic Focus. The Focus addresses where growth come from and analysis the various theoretical and empirical facts about ‘Sources of Growth’.
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