Israel 2011.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Staff (corporate author)
Autores Corporativos: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Staff Corporate Author (corporate author), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Paris : OECD 2011.
Colección:OECD economic surveys,
OECD economic surveys. Israel, v. 2011/18 (December 2011)
Materias:
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Table of contents""; ""Basic statistics of Israel, 2010""; ""Executive summary""; ""Assessment and recommendations""; ""Growth has been relatively strong, but global developments are weakening prospects""; ""Figure 1. A relatively strong recovery but recent slowing""; ""Table 1. Short-term economic outlook""; ""Challenges in long-run productivity performance and poverty remain""; ""Figure 2. Core challenges for the longer term""; ""Monetary policy and financial stability""; ""An unusual and difficult conjuncture for monetary policyâ€?""; ""Figure 3. Current issues for monetary policy""
  • ""â€? was tackled by combining rate hikes with currency intervention""""Changes to the Bank of Israelâ€?s modus operandi continue""; ""Additional steps are being taken to cool the housing market""; ""There is room to improve financial supervision""; ""In banking, planned legislation to allow securitisation should proceed cautiously""; ""Corporate bond markets remain the major concern""; ""The framework for saving in institutional funds could be improved""; ""Box 1. Core recommendations on monetary policy and financial-market regulation""; ""Fiscal policy""
  • ""Debt reduction should remain the top priority""""Figure 4. Fiscal outcomes""; ""Faster spending growth under the new fiscal rule is welcome""; ""Figure 5. Primary civilian and overall government expenditure""; ""Near-term prospects in fiscal performance have weakened""; ""Ensuring revenues remain on track in the longer term remains a core challenge""; ""Figure 6. Fiscal scenarios with adherence to the deficit targets and new spending rule""; ""Table 2. Key features of the Trajtenberg Committeeâ€?s recommendations""; ""Figure 7. Tax indicators""
  • ""An innovative shift to a two-year budget cycle""""And a significant improvement in the fiscal treatment of hydrocarbon resources""; ""Box 2. Core recommendations on fiscal policy""; ""Education, labour and social policies""; ""Figure 8. Education and labour-market indicators""; ""Some good news in the latest PISA results and reasonable progress in education reform""; ""A lack of progress in making employment and social policies more effective""; ""In housing, tax settings excessively favour home ownershipâ€?""
  • ""â€? and housing support schemes extend well beyond assistance to low-income households""""Box 3. Core recommendations on education, labour and social policies""; ""Progress in improving the business environment""; ""Figure 9. Indicators of business policy""; ""In the housing sector reforms to planning regulation are underway""; ""In the energy sector, sluggish reform in electricity and concerns about competition in natural gas""; ""Competition issues in the financial sector remain a subject of debate""; ""Box 4. Core recommendations on the business environment""; ""Environmental issues""
  • ""Plans for GHG-emission reduction focus on the electricity sector""