I’ll illustrate this with three examples from international comparisons in education that were performed in 2005: a. 46 percent of Israelis aged 25–64 had post-secondary schooling, as against 26 percent on average in the OECD countries. b.  R&D expenditure in Israel was 4.4 percent of GDP, as against 2 percent on average in the OECD countries.
The non-performing loans as percentage of total loans have gone down from about 23% before consolidation to less than 8% currently; total deposits have almost doubled, and credit to the private sector growing astronomically (annualized at 72% within the first four months in 2007).