Fiscal Restraint and Social Expenditure: Israel's Experience in the 1980s

Yaakov Kop
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Yaakov Kop: International Monetary Fund

IMF Staff Papers, 1989, vol. 36, issue 1, 262-270

Abstract: The development of Israel's government social expenditures during the economic stabilization period of the mid-1980s is analyzed, with specific reference to the changing needs for such expenditure arising from demographic changes. The results reveal a real cut in direct services. The implicit strategy relied, for some two to three years, on restraint of total expenditures on direct services in real terms, with real erosion in services arising from growth in the size of beneficiary groups.

Date: 1989
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