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As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions." [11] "National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s). National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates ...
A report issued by the OECD in 2016 ranks Israel as the country with the highest rates of poverty among its members. Approximately 21 percent of Israelis were found to be living under the poverty line – more than in countries such as Mexico, Turkey, and Chile. The OECD average is a poverty rate of 11 percent. [46]
The CBS also conducts a Census of Population and Housing every ten years, as well as periodic and one-time surveys on a variety of subjects. [4] The work of CBS is overseen by the Public Commission of Statistics. The data is disseminated in a wide variety of publications, among them the Statistical Abstract of Israel.
Israel had more companies listed in 2012 on the NASDAQ stock exchange than any country outside of the United States and China. [1] [2] As of 2011, some sixty Israeli companies are listed on the Nasdaq. [3] 2000 was the year that saw the most new Israeli listings on the exchange – 33 companies. [4]
Back in the days of the Exodus, investment opportunities in the Holy Land were limited to a pair of options. One choice was framed by draconian terms of service that ...
As of 2019, 15 Israeli companies were listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. Nearly all achieved their listings [ 1 ] via a so-called "back-door listing" [ 2 ] where a currently-listed entity is used as a shell to house the new entity.
It is a month since Hamas launched its unexpected and brutal attack on Israel. More than 1,400 Israelis were killed in the assault, and more than 240 were taken hostage, according to a count by ...
The economy of Israel is a highly developed free-market economy. [23] [4] [24] [25] [26] The prosperity of Israel's advanced economy allows the country to have a sophisticated welfare state, a powerful modern military said to possess a nuclear-weapons capability with a full nuclear triad, modern infrastructure equivalent to developed countries, and a high-technology sector competitively on par ...