Union Bank back on track. (Union Bank of Israel, earnings)

This book is the product of a 1990 conference co-sponsored by the Bank of Israel and the Inter-American Development Bank. The conference brought together economists and policymakers to assess the stabilization episodes of five Latin American nations and to compare their experiences with that of Israel, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. Together ......

THE 1990s AND early 2000s witnessed an unprecedented increase in central bank transparency, with New Zealand, Canada, the UK, Sweden, Finland, Israel, Australia, Spain, the European Central Bank, Norway, and several developing countries all adopting an inflation targeting framework for monetary policy, l and many other central banks dramatically increasing ......

Jacob A. Frenkel, Governor of the Bank of Israel, shares with Finance & Development his reflections on the new opening for peace in the Middle East, disruptions in the exchange markets, and other events in the world economy. Middle East What will be the overall economic ramifications of the recent ......

Israel's economy The Israeli Economy, 1985-1998: From Government Intervention to Market Economics. Edited by Avi Ben-Bassat. Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002, 514 pp., $40/cloth. As editor, Avi Ben-Bassat presents a series of 14 essays based on a 1996 research project by various Israeli academic and financial institutions as ......

By VOA News Palestinian officials said 10 Palestinians died following a missile attack from an Israeli F-16 warplane in Gaza City. Witnesses said the attack late Monday levelled several houses in a Gaza neighborhood. The attack was apparently aimed at Salah Chehade, a military chief for the Palestinian militant group ......

Latest on cars. No its not doom and gloom but some things to be aware of: BE CALM: A recent study at Ben Gurion University in Israel showed that listening to music with a fast tempo can make drivers more than twice as likely to have an accident. TOXIC CAR ......

There is a war on that concerns Israel, which is nothing new, however this one involves flying there.