Affaires économiques
Fondation IDEA
There are many reasons to believe that Luxembourg is an “exceptional” country. The numbers are telling. According to Eurostat, for the period 2009-2017 alone, Luxembourg increased its population by a staggering 19.67% –far above the growth experienced by the neighboring Germany (a negligible 0.6%), France (4.1%) or Belgium (5.57%). There are other cases were the magnitude of Luxembourg’s growth nullifies any rationale for making international comparisons. It was our desire to better understand this “exceptionality” of Luxembourg that led us to undertake this research. Is Luxembourg’s “fate” to remain an outlier in most international comparisons or are there reasons to believe that other, comparable cases might emerge if we change the level of the analysis?
Read the entire article and download the Working Paper: http://www.fondation-idea.lu/2018/11/19/3974/