Article: Building a kinder, gentler Reich. (economic development of Germany) (Cover Story)

Germany is footing a mammoth bill for unification. But the payoff may be a supercharged economic machine positioned to dominate post-1992 Europe.

When West Germany absorbed the former German Democratic Republic in July 1990, the country kicked off perhaps the second most ambitious political and economic experiment of modern times. Indeed, some maintain the merger of powerhouse western Germany with its stunted half brother in the East leaves the "new" Germany poised on the brink of an economic miracle similar to that following World War II. But a funny thing happened on the way to the consolidation. The even-par currency conversion that signaled unification ...

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