Israel: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
February 13, 1997
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
Pages:
102
Volume:
1997
DOI:
Issue:
002
Series:
Country Report No. 1997/002
Stock No:
1ISREA0011997
ISBN:
9781451819434
ISSN:
1934-7685





