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    Israel reports progress

    Two years after Israel joined the OECD, Sharon Kedmi, Director General at the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, is leading a delegation to an important OECD Employment Labour and Social Affairs Committee meeting on 26 October. He spoke with the OECD Observer.

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  • Aiming for the medium term

    What can countries looking to put their public finances in order learn from Israel, which joined the OECD in 2010? Quite a lot, says the country’s central bank governor, who provides some good reasons for optimism.

    (1026 words)
  • ©Israelimages/Yakis Kidron

    Start-up nation: An innovation story

    Innovation is a major driver of productivity, economic growth and development. Many OECD countries today are looking to boost productivity through investments in science, technology and R&D. What experience can Israel, new OECD member and the “start-up nation” feted in a recent book by Dan Senor and Saul Singer, bring to the table?

    (1251 words)
  • ©Ronen Engel/Israel Sun

    Immigration and employment: A complex challenge

    Israel’s labour market is a reflection of the country’s complicated demographic patchwork. This brings strengths and weaknesses.

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  • ©Jack Guez/AFP

    Tourism: Rooms for improvement

    Israel is a popular holiday destination, thanks to cultural and historical, but also leisure, attractions. But there are challenges to overcome.

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    A profile of the Israeli economy

    In many respects Israel’s short but dramatic history has created a combination of economic, social, demographic and political circumstances without close parallel with any other OECD member country. Some of these characteristics are outlined here, and are explored in more depth in the OECD’s first Economic Survey of Israel, published in 2010.

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  • Israel's economic strategy

    A year ago, at the 2010 OECD Ministerial Council Meeting, Israel was formally invited to become a member of the OECD, following three years of accession negotiations. Israel duly became the organisation’s 33rd member country a few months later, in September 2010. The OECD Observer asked the minister of finance, Yuval Steinitz, to outline his views on the country’s economic challenges.

    (711 words)
  • News brief - October 2010

    Slower activity ahead?; Economy; Soundbites; Roundup; Corruption work praised; iLibrary launched; Israel joins the OECD; Secretary-General reappointed; Plus ça change...

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  • Israel's economy

    More active education and employment policies, particularly targeted at minority groups, are needed to bolster its economic performance and bridge deep divisions within its society.

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  • Israel's economy

    More active education and employment policies, particularly targeted at minority groups, are needed to bolster its economic performance and bridge deep divisions within its society.

    (441 words)
  • ©OECD Observer

    Making the world economy work better

    As political leaders gathered in Heiligendamm in northern Germany this June and before that at the OECD in Paris in May, the concern on everyone’s minds was the future shape of the global economy.

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  • Innovation: Advancing the OECD Agenda for Growth and Equity

    Announcements about enlarging the OECD’s membership and strengthening co-operation with other countries took much of the limelight at this year’s annual ministerial meeting. Below is an extract on enlargement from the Chair’s summary, followed by some selected highlights of the meeting.

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  • Marietta Giannakou with Angel Gurría - Photo © OECD

    Higher education: Quality, equity and efficiency

    Higher education cannot escape major and sometimes difficult change, and OECD governments were determined to lead those changes, rather than be driven by them. This was how Marietta Giannakou, minister of national education and religious affairs of Greece, wrapped up her conclusions as chair of the 2006 Education Ministers’ Meeting.

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  • Salt of the earth

    As the ocean covers three quarters of the surface of the earth, little wonder people see it as a possible source of freshwater. That basically means desalinating it to make it at least clean enough for agriculture and even good enough to drink. How does it work? Distillation is the cheap option, responsible for most desalinised water, but a newer filtering process using membranes, called reverse osmosis, now accounts for nearly half the world’s capacity to turn ocean into freshwater.

    (189 words)
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