The various sections in this review examine developments in the Israeli economy in the early 1990s with emphasis on 1992 and the level of planned government outlays for social services as presented in the 1993 State Budget proposal. It also looks at social expenditure trends in the State Budget, and the composition of this expenditure as well as its main components of income maintenance, education and health services.
This paper appears as a chapter in the Center’s annual publication, Israel’s Social Services 1992-1993, and is available upon request.