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Autore |
Thakur Subhash |
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Titolo |
Sweden's Welfare State : : Can the Bumblebee Keep Flying? / / Subhash Thakur, Valerie Cerra, Balázs Horváth, Michael Keen |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-4623-2088-0 |
1-4527-4023-2 |
1-283-53764-8 |
9786613850096 |
1-4519-4004-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (151 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CerraValerie |
HorváthBalázs |
KeenMichael |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Welfare state |
Public welfare - Sweden |
Labor market - Sweden |
Aggregate Factor Income Distribution |
Business Taxes and Subsidies |
Corporate & business tax |
Corporate income tax |
Corporate Taxation |
Corporate taxes |
Corporations |
Currency |
Demand and Supply of Labor: General |
Expenditure |
Expenditures, Public |
Foreign exchange |
Income economics |
Income tax |
Income |
Labor market |
Labor markets |
Labor |
Labour |
Macroeconomics |
National accounts |
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National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General |
Pensions |
Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies |
Public finance & taxation |
Public Finance |
Revenue administration |
Revenue |
Taxation |
Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General |
Taxes |
Sweden Economic policy |
Sweden Economic conditions |
Sweden Social conditions |
Sweden |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-128) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""1 Introduction and Overview""; ""2 Main Elements of the Swedish Welfare State""; ""3 The Swedish Growth Experience""; ""4 Growth, Government, and the Welfare State""; ""5 Labor Market Interventions""; ""6 Investment and Savings""; ""7 Redistribution""; ""8 Pressures on the Welfare State""; ""9 Achievements, Lessons, and the Way Ahead""; ""Appendix A Primer on Marginal and Average Effective Rates of Capital Income Taxation""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""The Authors"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Sweden has long been viewed as epitomizing a particular approach to economic and social policy. To its advocates, the Swedish welfare state builds on a strong social consensus favoring extensive state intervention to ensure a high quality of life for all Swedes. To its critics, the Swedish system is marked by excessive government intervention and attendant inefficiencies. These contrasting views are captured in imagery used by Prime Minister Göran Persson: "Think of a bumblebee. With its overly heavy body and little wings, supposedly it should not be able to fly--but it does." The Swedish welfare state is the bumblebee that has managed to fly. This book draws on many years of IMF surveillance and policy advice to explain how it has done so, to assess the challenges that the Swedish model faces in the new century, to propose a strategy for dealing with those challenges, and to draw lessons for the many other countries that face similar challenges from globalization and demographics. |
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