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14-Dec-2011
Bank regulation might have contributed to or even reinforced adverse systemic shocks that materialised during the financial crisis. Capital regulation based on risk-weighted assets encourages innovation designed to circumvent regulatory requirements and shifts banks’ focus away from their core economic functions.
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12-Dec-2011
Israel’s economy passed through the 2008 09 global downturn in relatively good shape but is now suffering alongside others. Persistent weaknesses in per capita income growth and a high rate of poverty, especially among certain communities, remain key long term challenges.
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12-Dec-2011
Israel’s financial sector, which, though it has avoided critical breakdown, has nevertheless displayed weaknesses. Corporate bond markets remain the major concern.
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12-Dec-2011
Israel has avoided the challenging fiscal situation facing a number of other OECD economies. Nevertheless, there remain sharp trade offs in fiscal policy objectives between debt reduction, spending control and tax reform, which have been heightened by pressures from the recent wave of popular protests.
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12-Dec-2011
Ensuring revenues remain on track in the longer term remains a core challenge; medium term simulations indicate it is likely that the authorities will have to take active measures to increase total revenues as a share of GDP to square their deficit and spending goals.
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12-Dec-2011
Israel’s greenhouse gas emissions and related air pollutants are largely the result of electricity production and energy use in transportation. Electricity supply is entirely domestic and generated almost entirely by hydrocarbon fuels. As a result, although energy intensity is relatively low, emissions per capita or per unit of GDP are relatively high.
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