IMF Staff Country Reports

Israel: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

February 13, 1997

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Israel: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

Contents include: Budget deficit - concepts, measurements, and developments; definition, accounting basis, scope, and coverage. Structural reform issues: privatization; capital market reform; exchange and trade liberalization; other government intervention - investment subsidies and price controls; labor market reform; and land reform. Current account sustainability in Israel: overview of the Israeli economy and its transformation in the 1990s; a model of the current account applied to Israel; and sustainability indicators. Statistical tables.

Subject: Balance of payments, Banking, Budget planning and preparation, Current account, Expenditure, Government debt management, Pension spending, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Budget deficit, Budget planning and preparation, Coupon payment, CR, Current account, Deficit, Deficit definition, Firm, Government company, Government debt management, Indexation scheme, ISCR, Pension spending, State budget, Sustainability indicator

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    102

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 1997/002

  • Stock No:

    1ISREA0011997

  • ISBN:

    9781451819434

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685