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Are We Close to Israel 15? Not Yet

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged , , on August 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Newsweek ranked Israel 22nd in its annual index of the “World’s Best Countries,” which was published yesterday. While it remains true that Israel has achieved relative success in raising GDP per Capita and providing health service, it still lags behind most other countries in the magnitude of its income gaps and the quality of its [...]

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Railways are not the Easy Answer for Israel’s Remote Communities

Posted in Regional Leapfrogging, tagged , , on July 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

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The challenge of measuring the quality of life

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged , , , , , on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

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 [...]

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Regionalism (9): The Regional ‘Lab’ in Bet-Shemesh and Mate Yehuda prepares for Phase II

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, Regional Leapfrogging, tagged , , , , on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Preparation meetings have recently begun in the lead up to the Bet-Shemesh and Mate Yehuda lab’s ‘Regional Table’ gathering. The aim of these meetings is to clarify the Regional Table’s function in the transition period between the first phase of identifying the region’s unique assets and their transformation into a regional narrative into the second [...]

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Last Chance to Become an Economic Superpower

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged , , , 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.

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Sha’ar HaNegev: Improving Local Resilience

Posted in Home Front, tagged , , , , on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Sha’ar HaNegev’s Department of Social Services has developed a unique vision aimed at improving the resilience of their inhabitants.

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Merav Arlozorov on Leapfrogging and the Economic Crisis

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged , , , on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In her op-ed in The Marker, Merav Arlozorov writes that the Ministry of Finance’s proposed economic stimulus plan is no more than just an ‘ok’ plan, arguing that it lacks vision and doesn’t promote Israel’s relative advantages.   She anchors her argument with an interview with Reut President Gidi Grinstein who claims that Israel should [...]

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Measuring Happiness and Quality of life

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged , on September 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Reut Institute has been putting a lot of effort in formalizing a way to measure Quality of Life in Israel. We believe that such a concept should be richer than pure traditional economic terms (such as GDP/ Capita), and should be the guideline for policymakers strategies. Naturally QoL comprises other, non economic parameters, and [...]

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ISRAEL 15 Vision: Competiveness in a Global World

Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged , on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Israel is ranked 38th in the world according to the Economists’ Quality of Life Index; and 23rd according to the 2008 U.N. Human Development Index. For some countries that might be enough; its not enough for us. We face the greatest gap between our potential, based on exposure to technology and education, and our achievements. [...]

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