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From Budget Shock to Surplus: Sweden's Handling the Refugee Boom
But negative rates and sound governance also help
MALMOE SWEDEN - Around two hundred people gathered in the Swedish city of Malmoe in February to demonstrate for human rights and the rights of refugees.
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Sweden is doing well: gross domestic product is expanding twice as fast as the euro zone’s and its budget deficit is shrinking more rapidly than expected.
Compare that to last autumn, at the height of the European migration crisis, when investors were fretting about Scandinavia’s biggest economy as 10,000 refugees were arriving at its doorstep each week.
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