  Seandhi Seeing From a New Level Premium join:2003-04-19 Humble, TX
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Holland -
"Real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2001 was -0.2% in 2001 and -1.2% in 2002. Tortal consumer expenditure is declining, investment in fixed assets is negative, and the inflation rate is 2.0% or 2.1%."
»www.mail-archive.com/marxism@lis···556.html
Netherlands -
"Economic growth Q3 in 2003: -1.1%
In the third quarter of 2003 the Dutch economy saw a negative growth of 1.1% compared to the same quarter of 2002. The decrease in volume of the gross domestic product (GDP) is almost equal to the decrease in the second quarter. After adjustments for seasonal and calendar effects, third quarter GDP increased by 0.1% on the second quarter."
»www.cbs.nl/en/publications/artic···1-03.htm
Sweden -
"The Government was successful in its objective of halving open unemployment to 4% by the end of 2000. However, the figure rose above 5% again at the beginning of 2003 due to the unfavourable state of the international economy."
And about the great health?
"An ever-growing problem is the steep rise in the numbers of people with long-term illnesses (currently more than 5% of the workforce), which puts a burden on state coffers while undermining the successes attained in combating unemployment."
»www.auswaertiges-amt.de/www/en/l···d_id=147
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