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... speaking, suggesting Canada, Belgium, Australia and New Zealand as candidates.


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by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Dec 1st, 2007 at 10:58:04 AM EST
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Just a thought: what about a Nordic 'average' for comparison?  

Norwegian government statistics are available in English...guess the same goes for the other Nordic countries.

by Solveig (link2ageataol.com) on Sat Dec 1st, 2007 at 12:39:26 PM EST
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... is a different species of the same concern I had in my head about Australia when I wrote the above ... which is the primary non-renewable resource exports and what role that plays in the economy in current conditions ... which might argue for Sweden or New Zealand.


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by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Dec 1st, 2007 at 03:42:32 PM EST
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Not sure I understand what you mean here...?
by Solveig (link2ageataol.com) on Sat Dec 1st, 2007 at 05:38:14 PM EST
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Australia has been going through a commodity export boom, and while I presume Norway's volume of oil exports are declining, that would be buffered to a certain extent by rising crude oil producers ...

... and I'd guess that even among high income countries, primary resource exporters seem likely to have a distinctive set of employment challenges and opportunities. They certainly do among low-income nations.

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by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Dec 1st, 2007 at 06:42:57 PM EST
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