Tag: GDP

Despite the war against Hamas, the Bank of Israel expects the economy to grow by 2% in 2024.

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel’s inflation rate reached a 14-year high in January, jumping 5.4% over the previous year.

Last month's estimate of 2.1 percent growth in the GDP has been reduced to an estimated annual rate of 1.9 percent in the third quarter of this year.

The Israeli economy's progress led the OECD year on year.

Israel Minister of Finance Yisrael Katz stated that this number is “another proof of the strength of the Israeli economy.”

We went looking for those items that best reflect how the report turns facts and figures on their heads to come up with the preconceived conclusion: it's all the fault of the Israeli occupation, and once Israel is out of the picture you'll see how those Palestinians will become Switzerland of the Middle East.

Iran, a member of OPEC, is not as worried about the plummeting price of crude oil as its regional neighbors -- it has other sources of income.

In the first part of this week's podcast, Diane Coyle, professor of economics at Manchester University and author of GDP: A Brief But Affectionate...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is working to improve economic ties with politically friendly Latin American countries in order to compensate for the...

Like Chavez, Obama presides over a poorer country whose poor are convinced that he is the only thing standing between them and absolute poverty.

Israel's economy grew by 2.5 percent in the last quarter of 2012, as compared with 2.9 percent in the third quarter of the year...

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The Report of the World Bank is a bitter commentary on the Palestinian economy, currently in a self-inflicted decline induced by the violence it brought on itself by launching the Second Intifada in 2000. Above all, the fundamental requisite for economic and political progress is to end the violence.