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The Economics of Israel

The Commonwealth and International Library: Social Administration, Training, Economics, and Production Division

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 1967
  • Latest edition
  • Author: David Horowitz
  • Editors: R Brown, G. Chandler, W. A. Davis
  • Language: English

The Economics of Israel provides information pertinent to the important features in Israel's economic development, which is the outcome of large-scale capital import. This book… Read more

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The Economics of Israel provides information pertinent to the important features in Israel's economic development, which is the outcome of large-scale capital import. This book discusses the various economic issues that the people of the State of Israel are confronted with, including difficult problems of controlling inflation, diversity of socio-economic structure, and geopolitical isolation. Organized into eight chapters, this book begins with an overview of Israel's geographical characteristics and natural resources. This text then examines the international economic relations of Israel. Other chapters consider the financial development in Israel since the establishment of the State. This book discusses as well the different elements of economic growth and the dynamic reaction of the economic structure of the immigration country to the process of migration. The final chapter deals with the unusual diversity of the social structure of the economy of Israel. This book is a valuable resource for readers who are interested in the economics of Israel.

Table of contents



1. Physical Background and Natural Resources

Vegetation and Fauna

Minerals and Raw Materials

Communications


2. Basic Data


3. Trends and Tendencies

Standard of Life

Economic Growth

Agriculture

The Background of Rapid Industrialization

The Availability of a Labour Supply

The Expansion of the Home Market

Building

Services

Objectives


4. Output Consumption and Employment

Agriculture

Industry

Services

Income and Consumption


5. The Balance of Payments and International Trade

Balance of Trade and the National Product

Adaptation to International Price Levels

Economic Independence

Rise in Output and Deficit in the Balance of Trade

Inflationary Pressures

Exports

What Takes Precedence?

Balanced Development

Conclusions


6. Investment

Import of Capital

The Task of Public Capital

The Problem of Savings

Structural Changes in the Economy


7. Finances

Budget Deficit

Government Expenditure

Expansion of Credit

Monetization of Foreign Currency Balances

Policy of Restraint


8. The New Economic Policy in Israel

Summary

Post Scriptum

Appendix: Conversion Tables

Index

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 9, 2014
  • Language: English

About the editor

GC

G. Chandler

Affiliations and expertise
Canberra, Australia

About the author

DH

David Horowitz

Dr. Horowitz is Co-Founder and CSO for My Voice AI Ltd., London where he focuses on speaker recognition, intellectual property, biometrics, speech acoustics and patents as well building upon the My Voice Platform new and innovative structures. Dr. David M. Horowitz, who pursued his graduate studies in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), is a speech scientist who has led a distinguished 40-year career in industry as a C-Level Director, Entrepreneur and Scientist (expert in acoustic analysis and voice quality). He has worked for fortune 500 companies to solo operations. He performed research for nearly 10 years at MIT where he earned a graduate degree and held the highly competitive post of Research Fellow in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Horowitz has focused on speech and brain science, AI, conversational speech systems (early chatbots). He holds 10 patents. Dr. Horowitz has worked with U.K. start-up companies helping companies transform their theoretical concepts into usable technology since 2001. He maintains a hands-on style of engineering coupled with a collegial style of management through mentorship with a track record of delivery. His roles in industry began as a Lead Software Engineer responsible for several product ‘firsts’ in language, conversational personal assistants and music (sold VoiceRAD, the first commercially successful application of 1980s speech recognition technology. to Kurzweil AI). Dr. Horowitz’ work has formed the basis for his Ph.D. by Publication from the University of East-Anglia (U.E.A.), an honour and distinction awarded for his publications on human acoustics perception, digital signal processing, multi-modal robotics, and primarily in biomedical engineering applied to the rehabilitation of individuals with quadriplegia. His Ph.D. thesis represents a cohesive programme of visionary research spanning 11 years. Dr. Horowitz was responsible for the approval of approximately $30M of contracts for auditory cognition and artificial intelligence. He has been the lead of 2 large EU collaborative grants. He was Scientific and Technical Coordinator of FASiL which developed a chatbot for managing email, contacts and calendar/agenda. He first conceived of SpechXRays which was awarded best funded Horizon 2020 project out of hundreds of projects.
Affiliations and expertise
Co-Founder, My Voic AI Ltd., London, United Kingdom CSO, My Voic AI Ltd., London, United Kingdom

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