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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘socio-economic leapfrogging’
Are We Close to Israel 15? Not Yet
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged ISRAEL 15 Vision, Quality of Life, socio-economic leapfrogging on August 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Will Negev Unemployment Really Increase Without the Ofer Brothers?
Posted in Regional Leapfrogging, tagged Regional Development, socio-economic leapfrogging, unique & global development policy on August 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Railways are not the Easy Answer for Israel’s Remote Communities
Posted in Regional Leapfrogging, tagged Quality of Life, Regional Development, socio-economic leapfrogging 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 [...]
Strengthening the Attractiveness of Regions in Israel’s Periphery
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Bottom up processes, ISRAEL 15 Vision, Regional Development, socio-economic leapfrogging, unique & global development policy on May 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
One of the main goals of Israel’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 [...]
bio negev: an innovation cluster in the negev region
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Bottom up processes, Regional Development, socio-economic leapfrogging, unique & global development policy on April 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The ‘Bio-Negev’ venture, that was recently launched by Vice Prime Minister and Minister of the Development of the Negev and Galilee – 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 [...]
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 »
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 [...]
An economic cluster and regional leapfrogging
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged ISRAEL 15 Vision, Regional Development, Regional Leapfrogging, socio-economic leapfrogging, unique assets on January 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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’s unique assets is an appropriate structure through which regional leapfrogging can be promoted.
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.
Regionalism (8): Entrepreneurs Meet in Akko and Mate Asher – A Platform for Regional Leapfrogging
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, Regional Leapfrogging, tagged ISRAEL 15 Vision, Regional Development, socio-economic leapfrogging on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, Reut’s Regional Development team participated in a meeting of entrepreneurs in Akko, the third among a series. The meetings’ goal is to design a narrative based on the region’s unique characteristics, and to leverage them into a globally competitive economic activity.
A Further Deterioration in Israel’s Competitiveness
Posted in ISRAEL 15 Vision, tagged Competitiveness, Effective Governance, socio-economic leapfrogging on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The World Economic Forum’s 2009-2010 Global Competitiveness Index published this week ranks Israel as 27th in the world, a decrease of 4 places since last year.
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