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Sweden's Welfare State : : Can the Bumblebee Keep Flying? / / Subhash Thakur, Valerie Cerra, Balázs Horváth, Michael Keen



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Autore: Thakur Subhash Visualizza persona
Titolo: Sweden's Welfare State : : Can the Bumblebee Keep Flying? / / Subhash Thakur, Valerie Cerra, Balázs Horváth, Michael Keen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (151 p.)
Disciplina: 330.9485
Soggetto topico: Welfare state
Public welfare - Sweden
Labor market - Sweden
Labor
Macroeconomics
Public Finance
Taxation
Corporate Taxation
Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
Business Taxes and Subsidies
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General
Demand and Supply of Labor: General
Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
Public finance & taxation
Labour
income economics
Corporate & business tax
Pensions
Currency
Foreign exchange
Income
Expenditure
Labor markets
Corporate taxes
Revenue administration
National accounts
Taxes
Corporate income tax
Corporations
Expenditures, Public
Revenue
Labor market
Income tax
Soggetto geografico: Sweden Economic policy
Sweden Economic conditions
Sweden Social conditions
Sweden
Altri autori: CerraValerie  
HorváthBalázs  
KeenMichael  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-128) and index.
Nota di contenuto: ""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""
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Sweden's Welfare State  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4623-2088-0
1-4527-4023-2
1-283-53764-8
9786613850096
1-4519-4004-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780751303321
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