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Economics
At the beginning of the 20th century Sweden was one of the poorest countries in Europe. It is now the most industrialized of the three Scandinavian states. The standard of living is high. It is the home of the "Swedish Model" , an approach to social economics which is neither the unrestricted free market of the United States, nor the Soviet model of total state ownership. It includes high taxes and therefore a narrow difference between the highest earners and lowest and a high level of social provision including investment in social infrastructure, pensions and other social benefits. There are some signs that taxes are higher than the voters wish to pay so that an increasing divergence between rich and poor may now take place following the election of a right wing coalition in September 1991.
The main wealth creating industries are mostly conventional joint stock companies of the western free market type. The Labour party did however introduce employee share purchase funds, which created opposition among the financial community.
The social provision was severely reduced by the new government, and there is now (Sep 1994) 15% unemployment (previously unknown) following the introduction of what some Swedes regard as Thatcherite economic policies. Is this the result of the collapse of the previous policy, or the result of new political ideas imported from outside? That is, was Swedish industry unable to compete with other countries with lower wages and social provision. If so, it might have lessons for Canada and the United States in NAFTA when they compete with Mexico. Or is it that the former conscious policy towards equality is being abandoned. Until now there have been no beggars and no homeless. Only after American and British policies were adopted did they appear. But the new (1994) Social Democrat government will still need to reduce a huge fiscal deficit and may now have to conform to EU norms.
Sweden was one of the three countries to stay out of the euro zone, but following the introduction of the physical euro seems likely to do so, eventually. The government has announced that in 2003 it will hold a referendum on joining the euro zone . The vote was against joining.
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Svedska je bila jedna od najsiromasnijih zemalja na pocetku 20. stoljeca, a sad je medju zemljama sa najvisim zivotnim standardom.
Za razliku od SAD, u Svedskoj se velika paznja pridaje ekologiji.
"Svedski model" je nesto izmedju kapitalistickog slobodnog trzisita i komunistickog socijalnog programa, uz visoku ekolosku osvjestenost i moje je misljenje da je to najbolji model za 21. stoljece.
Zanimljivo je da se sad u Hrvatskoj pokusava graditi kapitalizam 19. stoljeca.
Hrvatskoj je pod hitno potreban vodja koji ima u vidu nesto bolje za nas.
Netko s idejom, vizijom, vatrom u srcu...a ne ovi FOSILI, koji nas sad "vode"...gdje?
U proslost?