IMF Staff Country Reports

Israel: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

February 13, 1997

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International Monetary Fund. "Israel: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix", IMF Staff Country Reports 1997, 002 (1997), accessed 12/13/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451819434.002

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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