Why european country has the highest growth potential as of now?
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In the developed half of Europe it would have to be the UK or Germany.  Don't forget there is a whole region in Eastern Europe that is growing much faster because it is either about to join the EU or has just joined.  The Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary are all doing well.  If you want something even more risky have a look at the Baltic Republics (Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia).  They have some of the highest growth rates in the world.
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Right now, portugal, and spain. portugal has the fastest growing economy in the european union. after the europen union europeans can live and work anywhere in europe many are moving to southern spain and portugal looking for a warm weather, similar to what's happening in florida in the U.S.
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1.  Large economy\n2.  High concentration of natural resources \n3.  Large population\n4.  Semi-market based policies\n5.  Relatively stable currency\n6.  Part of Goldman Sach's BRIC countries
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"Europe's economic" what?
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The government can control the economy, providing stability and a sense of certainty that would lead to a rise in economic activity. The economy can then sustain a steady growth
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Before the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the Republic of Croatia, after Slovenia, was the most prosperous and industrialized area with a per capita output perhaps one-third above the Yugoslav average. The economy emerged from a mild recession in 2000 with tourism, banking, and public investments leading the way. Unemployment remains high, at about 18%, with structural factors slowing its decline. While macroeconomic stabilization has largely been achieved, structural reforms lag because of deep resistance on the part of the public and lack of strong support from politicians. Growth, while impressive at about 3% to 4% for the last several years, has been stimulated, in part, through high fiscal deficits and rapid credit growth. The EU accession process should accelerate fiscal and structural reform.
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A friendly nation with rich history, prosperous future and set of world's greatest resources - brainy people!!!
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Two Economists Look at Europe's Economic Slowdown\nEconomic growth and labor productivity have been slowing in Europe as workers take more leisure time. Two experts look at why.\n\nBy Leslie Evans\n\n\n\nFor thirty years Western Europe has consistently turned out a Gross Domestic Product 70% that of the United States. Why hasn't Europe caught up? And curiously, European hourly productivity is much higher than GDP figures would imply, at 90% or better of that of American workers. Why the gap, and why did labor productivity, Europe's best indicator, begin to slide after 1995? Two economists, one from Europe and one from the United States, probed the persistent thirty-year differences between living and earning patterns in Western Europe and the United States at a November 4 UCLA forum.\n\nGianni Toniolo of the University of Rome, who holds a joint appointment at Duke University, was joined by Barry Eichengreen of the University of California at Berkeley in the History Conference Room of UCLA's Bunche Hall for a discussion on "Europe in the Age of Globalization." The meeting was sponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies and chaired by the center's director, historian Ivan Berend. Both speakers compared the United States to the EU-15, the original 15 Western European members of the European Union before the accession of 10 East and Central European states to the EU last May.\n\nGianni Toniolo: Europeans Place a Higher Value on Leisure\nGianni Toniolo began by lamenting the growing rift between America under the Bush presidency and the European Union. "The Atlantic has never been as wide as it is now, at least in my lifetime, which is postwar. And I am deeply concerned about that. I am deeply concerned about the cultural, political misunderstandings, the lack of understanding that seems to appear on the two sides of the Atlantic."\n\nA History of Economic Convergence -- Followed by Economic Divergences\nBack in 1820, Toniolo said, Western Europe and the United States had about the same per capita GDP. "By 1870 the Americans were ahead of Europe and the gap in GDP per capita continued to grow all the way until 1950." In 1870 Europe produced 82% of the U.S. per capita GDP. After the ravages of two world wars this fell to only 50% in 1950. But in the rebuilding and modernization of European industrial plant from the 1950s onward Europe took large strides toward closing the gap. By 1970 Western European per capita GDP reached 70% of the U.S. and has pretty much frozen there.\n\nBut this did not mean that European industry was as far behind as those numbers suggested, both economists agreed. Productivity, or output per hour worked, has come much closer to U.S. rates. Barry Eichengreen in his presentation reported that the EU-15 average GDP per hour worked in 2000 was 90.7% of the United States and four of the fifteen, Belgium, France, Italy, and the Netherlands, have higher labor productivity than the U.S.\n\nGianni Toniolo summarized some of the institutional arguments used by various economists to explain why the U.S. has remained ahead. These include a history of cheap land but expensive labor, which encouraged investment in labor-saving machinery; a more technically oriented educational system; and the unified American market compared to the multiple smaller states of Europe. Most of these U.S. advantages were strongly reduced after World War II, by the end of the American frontier, moves toward European economic unification, and common advances in technology.\n\nEuropeans Begin to Work Fewer Hours\n"The story, however, becomes interesting when we look at why, in spite of being so productive or equally productive as America we poor Europeans are 30% poorer that you Americans," he said. "And the answer is very simple. From the mid-seventies onward Europeans began to work fewer and fewer hours over the life cycle. There was less participation in the
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Yes.... India is growing. It is growing in the field of Aviation(new startups), Automobile(luxury brands entering India), Pharmaceuticals and Hospitals (Ranbaxy's Fortis Chain), Tourism, Electronics etc.......... and Overall it is said that India will become third largest economy by 2020...... Hope So
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I think Switzerland is probably a high contender.  While it is a part of Europe, the Swiss have their own ways about them and do their best to stay out of foreign affairs.  The taxes are very high, but the quality of life is superb, the environment is beautiful, with conservation efforts constantly being undertaken, and the people care more about one another than MANY other places in the world.  The Swiss are not a conceited people who only think their way is the right way, though they are very proud about their ways, but a people who want others to have the chance to grow and develop in a safe, family-friendly environment.  Don't believe me?  Ask Shania Twain why she and her family choose to live there instead of America, despite their need to work in American often.
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It's kinda simple. Europe has alot of countries which gives it a better chance to qualify in the World Cup. And also Europe's countries have very good soccer players. An example is England, England is one of the best soccer teams. England can beat brazil and Argentina and win the World Cup. All because it has good soccer players. So Europe has more countries and good soccer players.
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A european country\nFrench, germany and England have the best chance
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its awesome! it is set to boom to greater hights. below mentioned are few reasons why it is set to reach new levels\n1. Ever increasing indian economy\n2. Booming IT/ITeS sector\n3. More graduates coming out of the college every year\n4. People are getting more health concious than ever.\n5. We have very few players in the market, haven't exploited the potential fully yet.
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I believe that the reason is that your country, as most of the developed countries, is aging.\n\nI mean, the age of the population and the expectancy of life are higher due to economical factors. This, along with a low birth rate, will make that, in a not-very-far future, the people in physical condition to work and pay taxes, and support the system, will be only a few , and their efforts won't be enough to support the rest of senior citizens.\n\nThere are some countries in Europe that are developing programs to encourage citizens to have 1 or more children. \n\nTypically, the illegal immigrants come from poor countries, where it's common to have at least 2 or 3 children.In a few years, these children will be the ones supporting the economical system of your country.\n\nHere is an excerpt from the link included below:\n"Population aging implies a contraction of the future workforce in many industrial countries and a sharp slowdown of future workforce growth in the remainder. Slowing workforce growth or actual labor force contraction will reduce domestic investment opportunities, because\nemployers will have less need to provide new equipment and facilities for additional workers."\n "There is also potential for disruption of financial asset markets if large cohorts of retirees begin to sell off their assets to pay for retirement consumption."\n\n"Although population aging is a world-wide phenomenon, it is occurring at different rates within richer industrialized countries and with a different timing in the developing world."
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i think it is way more complicated then Europe and here is why. European nations have the advantage of being so close together- asia is much more spread apart. European countries are smaller- think Iran, China, India, Vietnam, Indoneisa,Japan..some of those are about or bigger then all of Europe. We are talking about so much more money,cause the economies in these countries is so much more then that of europe. Nope, dont think it will happen or that it would be a good thing if it did.
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I believe the EU is very positive and a good way to keep the north american free trade in balance.
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I'm not really surprised.  Most of northern and western Europe have better standards of living than the UK.  I wouldn't be at all surprised if  places like Canada, Australia and New Zealand also came above us.  \n\nI've seen a lot of the world and while Europe is my favourite place and Britain has many good qualities,  the UK tends to have an inflated opinion of its own quality of life.