- The overall public satisfaction with the current government's
economic performance has fallen to a lower level than any of its predecessors
in the last 10 years, according to a comparative survey carried out by
Dr. Roby Nathanson and Hagar Tzameret of the Israeli Institute for Economic
and Social Research.
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- According to the Institute's research, however, approval
of the government's economic performance is still higher than approval
of its social policies. Among the issues on which the government scores
poorly are unemployment, the treatment of the weakest sectors of society
and the failure to prevent the erosion of salary in real terms. In contrast,
the public approves of the development of the transport infrastructure
and the low rate of inflation.
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- The research is based on a survey carried out by Mihshuv
Market and Public Opinion Research. The data from the survey was compared
to the results of a similar surveys conducted annually since 1992.
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- Respondents were asked to give the government marks out
of 10 in several fields. According to Nathanson and Tzameret, the period
in question splits clearly into two separate trends: from 1992 to 1997,
there was a marked upturn in approval for the government, and a steady
drop between 1998 and 2003.
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- http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/366766.html
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