Sweden's welfare state : can the bumblebee keep flying? / Subhash Thakur [and others]
The Swedish welfare state is the bumblebee that has managed to fly. This book draws on recent IMF surveillance and policy advice to understand how it has done so, to assess the challenges that the "Swedish model" faces in the new century, and to propose a strategy for dealing with them. Re...
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
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Table of Contents:
- Main elements of the Swedish welfare state
- The Swedish growth experience
- Growth, government, and the welfare state
- Labor market interventions
- Investment and savings
- Redistribution
- Pressures on the welfare state
- Achievements, lessons, and the way ahead.