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A Decline in Israel’s Competitiveness
The World Economic Forum‘s annual Global Competitiveness Index ranked Israel 23rd in the world, a decline of 5 places since last year. The Global Competitiveness Index examines the relative...
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Comparative Decline in Israel’s Public and Private Sector
Results from the Global Competitiveness Index 2008-2009 showing comparative decline in Israel’s public and private sector performance may indicate a setback in fulfilling the Israel 15 Vision. The Reut...
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Flexicurity and the Current Economic Crisis
In light of the current Economic Crisis, a new labor policy is needed to assure both competitiveness and security for all workers. Haggai Levin of the National Economic Council published an article...
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Israel’s Economy: Freer but still far from leapfrogging
Despite Israel’s overall improvement in Economic Freedom, the large and uncompetitive nature of the public sector is a setback for socio-economic leapfrog. The Heritage Foundation Index of Economic...
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Israel: Leading the world in long term thinking?
New governmental plans in the field of pensions embody a much needed emphasis on long term performance. In a previous blog, I argued that the sense of urgency due to the current economic crisis...
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Israel and the Economic Crisis (7) ‘Creative Destruction’ maintains Economic...
A recent article in ‘The-Marker Week’ (Hebrew) by Rolnik, Avriel and Noiman argues that the economic crisis as an opportunity for the Israeli economy to transform itself. Such a process is sometimes...
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A Further Deterioration in Israel’s Competitiveness
The World Economic Forum’s 2009-2010 Global Competitiveness Index published this week ranks Israel as 27th in the world, a decrease of 4 places since last year. The Global Competitiveness Index (GCI)...
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