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 (“Erech”), 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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘growth’
The challenge of measuring the quality of life
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Bottom up processes, growth, ISRAEL 15 Vision, Quality of Life, Regional Development, socio-economic leapfrogging on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Risks of Israel’s Classification as a Developed Market
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged growth, ISRAEL 15 Vision, socio-economic leapfrogging on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Following the announcement by Morgan Stanley of Israel transitioning into a ‘developed market status’, the Milken Institute has an interesting research report as to the potentially significant risks that the country could face.
Israel and the Economic Crisis (6): Will Salvation Come from Increasing Private Consumption?
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged demand, economic crisis, growth, ISRAEL 15 Vision, private consumption on March 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What do Benjamin Netanyahu, Avia Spivak, Benny Pfefferman and Stanley Fisher have in common? They all believe that the solution for the economic crisis lies in rising consumption.
Last Chance to Become an Economic Superpower
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged growth, ISRAEL 15 Vision, Leapgrog, Quality of Life on March 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In an article recently published in The Marker, Gidi Grinstein urges Israel’s next Prime Minister to define the aim of making Israel into one of the 15 leading countries in the world as a national goal and to lay the foundations for its realization.
2nd annual ISRAEL 15 Conference – June 8th 2009
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged growth, ISRAEL 15 Vision, Leapfrog, Leapfrogging, Reut Conference on January 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since 2006, the Reut Institute has been studying the theoretical underpinnings of what types of policy, leadership and decision making will enable Israel to leapfrog into one of the leading countries in quality of life. In this context, we plan to host the 2nd annual ISRAEL 15 Conference on June 8th 2009. The Conference aims [...]
The ‘ISRAEL 15 vision’ for Social and Economic Leapfrogging
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged growth, ISRAEL 15 Vision, Leapfrogging on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today, the Reut Institute’s socio-economic team uploaded a document summarizing the insights gathered so far regarding the challenge of leapfrogging. It includes the principles and considerations policy makers should have in mind when addressing strategies to instigate sustained growth in Israel.

