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	<title>Vision to Reality: The Reut Blog &#187; Israel 15</title>
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		<title>The New Social Contract – A Trans-Israel Journey</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2011/09/12/the-new-social-contract-%e2%80%93-a-trans-israel-journey/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2011/09/12/the-new-social-contract-%e2%80%93-a-trans-israel-journey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noa Ecker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISRAEL 15 Vision]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[inclusive growth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to encourage a public debate on the need to establish a new social contract, that will regulate the relations between Government and citizens, and on the approach towards inclussive growth and comuunity building, we travelled across Israel to meet individuals and communities. To date, we have led and taken part in more than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=3370&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Noa Ecker</media:title>
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		<title>Growth encouragement and workers&#8217; rights – are they compatible?</title>
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		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2010/03/16/growth-encouragement-workers-rights-flexicurity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noa Ecker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISRAEL 15 Vision]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[flexicurity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel 15]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://reut-blog.org/?p=2798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The CEO of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor recently mentioned a dilemma which characterizes the Ministry&#8217;s work: &#8220;Does our will to encourage the economy fit in with our will to protect workers?&#8221; Even raising the question signifies a mindset that perceives a conflict between encouraging growth and the protection of workers&#8217; rights. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=2798&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Noa Ecker</media:title>
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		<title>Training for the global market</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2010/01/07/training-for-the-global-market-flexicurity-human-capital-training-on-the-job-trainin/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2010/01/07/training-for-the-global-market-flexicurity-human-capital-training-on-the-job-trainin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shay Gurion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISRAEL 15 Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flexicurity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel 15]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://reut-blog.org/?p=2655</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ A recently published decision, by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor announces the beginning of a new program rewarding employers who train new employees. The employers, in return for the subsidy, would help these employees earn a professional diploma.  The program&#8217;s purpose is to diminish the dependence on foreign workers. However, in accordance with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=2655&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Learning about the EU Flexicurity approach</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/11/24/learning-about-the-eu-flexicurity-approach-leapfrog-israel-reut-israel15/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2009/11/24/learning-about-the-eu-flexicurity-approach-leapfrog-israel-reut-israel15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omri Zegen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISRAEL 15 Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flexicurity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel 15]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor market policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leapfrog in quality of life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Reut team recently came back from a study visit to the EU in which we meet with officials and EU social partners regarding the Flexicurity approach. Our main insights and findings are below: Flexicurity is not a new policy but a general approach, which encompasses overarching policies and means that states have used in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=2514&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Omri Zegen</media:title>
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		<title>Standardization and Legislation as an Essential Component of Leapfrogging</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/06/14/standardization-and-legislation-as-an-essential-component-of-leapfroggingmaalamaala-ranking/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2009/06/14/standardization-and-legislation-as-an-essential-component-of-leapfroggingmaalamaala-ranking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yuval Holtzmann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISRAEL 15 Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel 15]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://reut-blog.org/?p=1800</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a document that describes the principles and guidelines for achieving an economic and social leapfrog in Israel, the Reut Institute claims that decision makers in the public sphere should establish rules of conduct that will reflect values that may promote leapfrogging, such as business ethics and social awareness. The lack of standardization and legislation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=1800&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Yuval Holtzmann</media:title>
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		<title>Reut’s 2009 Annual ISRAEL 15 Conference – Harnessing the Community for a Social and Economic Leapfrog</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/06/10/reut-2009-israel-15-annual-secondconference-leapfrog/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2009/06/10/reut-2009-israel-15-annual-secondconference-leapfrog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noa Ecker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About Reut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISRAEL 15 Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel 15]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[socio-economic leapfrogging]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://reut-blog.org/?p=1791</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week Reut hosted the annual ISRAEL 15 Conference. Some 600 leaders in the social and economic arena gathered to examine ways to fulfill the vision of turning Israel into one of the leading countries in terms of quality of life. Attendants came from both Israel and abroad and represented various sectors: high and medium [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=1791&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">Noa Ecker</media:title>
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		<title>Government Expenditure should Focus on &#8216;Relative Disadvantage&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2009/02/16/governmental-expenditur-relative-disadvantage-merav-arlozorov-japan-obama-israel-leapfrog-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2009/02/16/governmental-expenditur-relative-disadvantage-merav-arlozorov-japan-obama-israel-leapfrog-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yuval Holtzmann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISRAEL 15 Vision]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://reut-blog.org/?p=1150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the context of the current economic crisis, Merav Arlozorov brings the example of how Japan dealt with its own depression during the 1990s. In contrast to Japan&#8217;s massive expenditure on infrastructure, Arlozorov claims that in order to get out of the crisis and reach sustainable growth, governmental expense should focus on the economy&#8217;s relative [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=1150&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Yuval Holtzmann</media:title>
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		<title>A Competitive Approach to Economic Resilience</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2008/11/12/competitiveness-poverty-israeli-society/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2008/11/12/competitiveness-poverty-israeli-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noa Ecker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISRAEL 15 Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[competitive approach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic resilience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel 15]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogreut.wordpress.com/?p=512</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A paper by The Macro Center for Political Economics in collaboration with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation highlights the Israeli economy&#8217;s performance in comparison to the average of OECD countries. The paper shows that while Israel is already reaching most of OECD&#8217;s economic targets, it is lagging behind in most of their social targets. The report [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=512&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">Noa Ecker</media:title>
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		<title>Obama, Israel and Economic Pragmatism</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2008/11/06/friedman-obama-leapfrogging/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2008/11/06/friedman-obama-leapfrogging/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 05:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amit Granek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISRAEL 15 Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel 15]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trial and error]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Friedman&#8217;s advice to President-Elect Obama echoes some of the central themes of one of the Reut team&#8217;s forthcoming update on Leapfrogging Israel&#8217;s quality of life. Friedman explains that Obama is inheriting a United States in social and economic disarray, and suggests that his response should be a thoughtful, pragmatic policy that aims to reach [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=452&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">Amit Granek</media:title>
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		<title>Meeting with the Lod Foundation</title>
		<link>http://reut-blog.org/2008/10/30/lod-foundation-reut/</link>
		<comments>http://reut-blog.org/2008/10/30/lod-foundation-reut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noa Ecker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ISRAEL 15 Vision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bottom up processes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel 15]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the Socio-Economic team met with Aviv Wasserman and his team from the Lod Community Foundation. It aims to promote a variety of projects to benefit the city of Lod and all of its inhabitants and combines the effort of practitioners and volunteers from the community with focus on reviving the Old City and Lod&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=reut-blog.org&amp;blog=4293676&amp;post=379&amp;subd=blogreut&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">Noa Ecker</media:title>
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