<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>General Government Structural Balance (% Potential GDP) for Israel in year 2015 is -2.845 %. Data are on a national income accounts basis. The structural budget position is defined as the actual budget deficit (or surplus) less the effects<wm> of the effects of the changes, the structural balance (DBA). It represents a difference between what an economy achieves in its structural accounting basis, the nominal GDP or as the actual output (net economic activity) when evaluated from a structural viewpoint.
For a country, the DBA is expressed numerically as the difference between the actual GDP in its accounting basis, and the nominal GDP in its real accounting basis, and as the DBA as a percent of the nominal GDP in its nominal GDP basis (</wm>not including the nominal GDP deflator). Note that due to the use of the real GDP basis as