Table of Contents
1. Executive Summary
2. Country Overview
3. Israel’s Economic Performance
3.1: Sectoral contribution to GDP and GDP growth rate
3.2: Consumption, saving, and investment trends
3.3: Foreign direct investment (FDI) by industry
4. Political and Social Risk Analysis of Israel
4.1: Structure and stability of government
4.2: Government policy agenda
4.2.1: Policy agenda
4.3: Risk in international relations
4.4: Social risk analysis
4.4.1: Social development index risk analysis
4.4.2: Labor Market
5. Economic Risk of Israel
5.1: Risk in financial sector
5.1.1: Risk in fiscal balance
5.1.2: Risk in current account balance
5.1.3: Risk in balance of payment (BOP)
5.2. Risk in external sector
5.2.1: External debt and default risk
5.2.2: International trade and its contribution to GDP
5.2.3: Risk in foreign exchange reserves and exchange rate
5.3: Risk in real sector
5.4: Economic factors impact on business
6. Business Risk of Israel
6.1: Business risk
6.2: Doing business in Israel in 2013
6.3: Credit rating of countries
6.4: R&D expenditure and technological risk
6.5: Business risk factors and their impact
7. Emerging Risk in Israel
List of Figures
Chapter 2. Country Snapshot / Overview
Figure 2.1: Geographical location of israel
Chapter 3. Israel’s Economic Performance
Figure 3.1: Trend of real GDP growth rate
Figure 3.2: Forecast of real GDP growth rate
Figure 3.3: GDP sectoral contribution
Figure 3.4: Share of different sectors to GDP in 2012
Figure 3.5: Quarterly trend of index of industrial production and GDP growth rate
Figure 3.6: Annual trend of index of industrial production and GDP growth rate
Figure 3.7: Trend of consumption expenditure as percentage of GDP
Figure 3.8: Trend of savings and investments as percentage of GDP
Figure 3.9: Foreign direct investment inflows by industry
Chapter 4. Political and Social Risk Analysis of Israel
Figure 4.1: Trend of population and population growth rate
Figure 4.2: Population age structure
Figure 4.3: Trend of per capita income
Figure 4.4: Trend of corruption perception index of Israel
Figure 4.5: Trend of unemployment rate in Israel
Chapter 5. Economic Risk of Israel
Figure 5.1: Global financial stability scenario
Figure 5.2: Trend of government revenue and expenditure as percentage of GDP
Figure 5.3: Trend of fiscal balance as percentage of GDP
Figure 5.4: Trend of current account balance and share in GDP
Figure 5.5: Terms of trade for Israel
Figure 5.6: Trend of balance of payment
Figure 5.7: Trend of gross government debt as percentage of GDP
Figure 5.8: Trend of gross government debt
Figure 5.9: Mixed prospects of debts in Israel
Figure 5.10: Israel’s international trade structure
Figure 5.11: Trend of exports and imports as percentage of GDP
Figure 5.12: Trend of foreign exchange reserves and exchange rate
Figure 5.13: Annual trend of inflation and interest rate
Chapter 6 Business Risk of Israel
Figure 6.1: Trend of R&D Expenditure in Israel
List of Tables
Chapter 2. Country Overview
Table 2.1: Demographic and political overview
Chapter 4. Political and Social Risk Analysis of Israel
Table 4.1: Homicide rate of Israel
Table 4.2: Corruption perception index
Chapter 5. Economic Risk of Israel
Table 5.1: Economic factors and their impact on business
Chapter 6. Business Risk of Israel
Table 6.1: Indicators for starting business
Table 6.2: Ranking in 2013 for procedures of starting a business
Table 6.3: Credit rating of countries by Moody’s, Fitch, and S&P
Table 6.4: Business risk factors and their impact on business