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		<title>Will Negev Unemployment Really Increase Without the Ofer Brothers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anat Horowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in Haaretz reported that Israel Chemicals, an Israeli company based in the Negev, is seeking to protect the benefits it receives from state grants. While several government ministries have called to cancel these grants, Israel Chemicals argues that doing so would force it to dismiss a large part of its workforce in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=3044&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Railways are not the Easy Answer for Israel&#8217;s Remote Communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anat Horowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government of Israel and others have repeated the same thesis for quite some time: that an advanced railway network linking the remote areas of Israel to its urban center will have two positive effects. One, it will  narrow the present socio-economic divide between remote and urban communities; and two, as this divide narrows and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=2989&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strengthening the Attractiveness of Regions in Israel’s Periphery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anat Horowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the main goals of Israel&#8217;s master plan TAMA 35, is to encourage development and growth of the Negev and Galilee regions. However, according to the plan’s monitoring team, the fundamental failure of its implementation is in attracting people to move to those regions: The current population in the north and south are far [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=2933&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>bio negev: an innovation cluster in the negev region</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anat Horowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8216;Bio-Negev&#8217; venture, that was recently launched by Vice Prime Minister and Minister of the Development of the Negev and Galilee &#8211; Silvan Shalom, is a regional center aiming to encourage innovation in the field of Biotechnology and life science. This venture, based on the model of economic clusters, is aimed at encouraging cooperation between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=2856&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The challenge of measuring the quality of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anat Horowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reut’s regional development team recently participated in a meeting organized by ELKA, regarding measuring quality of life in Israel. Head of Israel’s Progress Index project (&#8220;Erech&#8221;), Anat Itay spoke about the process of defining, measuring and fostering an alternative index to GDP, which would focus on a variety of components of quality of life, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=2812&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An economic cluster and regional leapfrogging</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2010/01/06/an-economic-cluster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anat Horowitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISRAEL 15 Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Regional Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The regional development team has uploaded a term defining an economic cluster. An economic cluster is a dense network of companies and institutions in a certain geographic sphere. An economic cluster that is based on the region&#8217;s unique assets is an appropriate structure through which regional leapfrogging can be promoted.     Posted in ISRAEL [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=2651&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regionalism (10): Distance to the Global Market is an Important Factor in Regional Development</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/11/26/regionalism-distance-global-market-regional-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anat Horowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The idea of establishing an international airport in Israel&#8217;s periphery has been in the public spotlight for years. Recently, Israel&#8217;s Transportation Minister, Israel Katz, called for expediting the construction of an international airport in the south of the country. He also stressed the importance of road and railway systems to support the new aerial infrastructure. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=2533&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regionalism (8): Entrepreneurs Meet in Akko and Mate Asher – A Platform for Regional Leapfrogging</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/11/01/regionalism-growth-akko-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anat Horowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Reut&#8217;s Regional Development team participated in a meeting of entrepreneurs in Akko, the third among a series. The meetings&#8217; goal is to design a narrative based on the region&#8217;s unique characteristics, and to leverage them into a globally competitive economic activity.  For Reut, these meetings serve as &#8216;laboratories&#8217; which will provide a model [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=2371&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regionalism (7): The Galilee Conference 2009 – Opportunity for Global Competitive Clusters in the North</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/10/27/the-galilee-conference-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anat Horowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the 2009 Galilee Conference primarily focused on economically developing the periphery, Reut believes that Israel should focus on utilizing the unique assets of many of its different regions. The 2009 Galilee Conference recently took place in Kfar Blum and was attended by President Shimon Peres, Prime Minister Netanyahu, senior ministers, entrepreneurs and mayors of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=2318&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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