The strategic perspective and long-term socioeconomic strategies for Israel : key methods with an application to aging / Steven W. Popper [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Popper, Steven W., 1953- author.

Popper, Steven W., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aging--Government policy--Israel.

Aging.

Strategic planning--Israel.

Strategic planning.

Israel--Social policy.

Israel.

Israel--Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

RAND Corporation 2015

Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

RAND researchers supported a high-level Israeli government team tasked with improving long-term socioeconomic strategy for the state. This report highlights selected inputs made to the government team to summarize the essential mechanics and roles for bringing a strategic perspective to policy consideration. To show how one can use a strategic perspective in an analysis of policy choices, the report uses the example of an aging population.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction; CHAPTER TWO: The Strategic Perspective and Socioeconomic Policy; Strategic Perspective and Its Link to Strategy; Israel and the Strategic Perspective; Potential Value Added by Enhanced Capacity for Strategic Assessment; CHAPTER THREE: Visions, Goals, and Strategic Frameworks; Key Ingredient for Strategy: What Goals Are to Be Achieved?; Toward a Socioeconomic Strategic Framework for Israel

CHAPTER FOUR: Measurement and Indicators of Socioeconomic Outcomes in IsraelMetrics, Measures, and Indicators; Indicators: Tools for Strategic Assessment and Strategy Development; Constructing a System of Socioeconomic Measures; CHAPTER FIVE: Applying a Strategic Perspective; Steps in Applying a Strategic Perspective; Population Aging in Israel: An Inevitable "Surprise"; CHAPTER SIX: Scan and List Initial Questions; Backcasting; Assessing Information to Establish Initial Questions; What Are the Strategic Questions for Israel?

CHAPTER SEVEN: Information-Gathering and Mapping the System: Israeli and International Experience with Population AgingDemographic Dynamics in Israel; Interviews and Existing Literature on Aging Issues in Israel; International Experience with Population Aging; Understanding the System: Mapping onto Socioeconomic Outcome Indicators; CHAPTER EIGHT: Dynamic Analysis: Focus on Health Care Cost and Dependency; Changes in Health Care Costs; Changes in GDP; CHAPTER NINE: Scenario Building: First Simple Steps; "In the Absence of Action, What Could Go Wrong?"; Robustness Assessment

CHAPTER TEN Moving Toward Strategic Planning and ImplementationStrategic Leverage Points for Aging Strategies in Israel; Process for Strategy; Embedding Strategy in Israel's Socioeconomic Policy; APPENDIXES; A. Candidate Indicators Within the Balanced Scorecard; B. Selected Output from the November 2011 Backcasting Workshop; C. Candidate Policy Actions for Population Aging; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8330-9070-4

OCLC:

928043422