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18 de abril de 2024Israel was admitted to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on Monday, underlining its transformation from a nation plagued by high inflation to a growing and stable advanced economy.
Estonia and Slovenia were also invited to join the group of wealthy market economies, which will now comprise 34 members.
Israeli leaders hailed the decision as confirmation of recent economic achievements. “I can still remember that in the 1980s we looked worse than Greece today, with hyperinflation and a deep crisis in the balance of payments,” Dan Meridor, the deputy prime minister, told journalists.
Today, Israel boasted annual per capita gross domestic product of almost $30,000 (€23,000, £20,000) – higher than several European Union states and similar to that of New Zealand.
“This is a major milestone in the Israeli success story,” added Mr Meridor.
A statement from the OECD on Monday said: “Israel’s scientific and technological policies have produced outstanding outcomes on a world scale.”
Joining the organisation offers few direct benefits, although Israeli officials insisted on Monday that the national economy would receive a boost.
Yuval Steinitz, the finance minister, said: “It has economic importance. As we know, in the years after countries joined [the OECD], there was an increase of billions of dollars in foreign investment.”
However, Israeli leaders were quick to add a political dimension to the OECD move. Mr Steinitz argued that the admissions marked “a political achievement of great import. We are now receiving a very significant seal of approval.”
The OECD’s stamp of recognition is all the more welcome at a time when Israel is facing strident criticism of its policies from abroad. The decision came despite a campaign by senior Palestinian officials to keep the Jewish state out.
Israel has been one of the best-performing western economies in recent years – regularly achieving annual growth above 5 per cent.
The country emerged from the global credit crisis earlier than the US and Europe, allowing the central bank to raise interest rates before any of its counterparts in the current economic cycle.
Unemployment stands at 7.4 per cent and is expected to fall, while the economy is forecast to grow by 3.7 per cent this year and 4 per cent in 2011.
Analysts say the recent strength of the economy is at least in part a result of the market reforms championed by Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, during his stint as finance minister between 2003 and 2005.
Mr Netanyahu pushed through a series of privatisations and liberalised once tightly regulated sectors such as banking.
The economy has benefited from a booming technology sector, attracting foreign investors including Intel, Microsoft and Google.