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Dit rapport samengesteld door zeer betrouwbare zwitserse bankiers
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beschrijft het helemaal.
Nederland sneuvelt in de halve finale
De mening van zwitserse bankiers over NL:
quote:
The Dutch soccer team again enters this
tournament as one of the favourites, as
it occupies the 3rd position in the FIFA
ranking. But its track record would suggest
that it will fail to deliver, again. We can
draw a striking parallel with Dutch economic
growth. Despite high expectations,
economic growth over the past 5 years
has been an underwhelming 0.6% p.a.,
only surpassed on the negative side by
countries such as Argentina, Germany and
Portugal. The high expectations were due
to a fairly liberal economic policy, but the
“Polder model”, or consensual relationship
between unions, government and employers
was maintained. The resulting high tax
rate most probably slowed the economy
down. The consensus expectation is, in line
with FIFA’s optimistic ranking of the Dutch
soccer team, for Dutch growth to pick up
again to 2.4% this year, almost matching
the OECD average of 2.6%.