Adva Center’s annual publication for 2016: The fruits of the economic growth trickle upwards more than down

The report challenges the routine government position with regard to social maladies: economic growth and still more economic growth. The figures belie the reliance on economic growth

Israel’s Heart is in Western Europe, Her Feet are in the Eastern and Southern Fringes

In this bi-annual report on inequality in central government transfers to local authorities the figures are for 2012, the most recent year for which the Ministry of the Interior and the Central Bureau of Statistics published complete data. We also examined the figures for the years between 1991 and 2012. Inequality was measured per capita.

The Gap between “Start-up Nation” and the Rest of the Nation

This annual update of the Social Report appears at the height of the Israeli election season, held early because of government fears that it would not be able to mobilize a majority to pass a budget bill that
called for harsh cuts in the social services.

The report shows that in 2010 there was a small increase in the income of most Israeli households, bringing their income back to its 2008 level. It also reveals that at the same time, inequality continued to grow. The report features developments over the past year as well as over the past decade.

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