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Article: Five tiny secrets of success. (five small European countries; includes related article)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 27, 1988
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THEY may not amount to much on the map, but Europe's smallest states make up for this with healthy economies and bags of history. And pride, for the continent's small men are also its great survivors. They are a reminder of a Europe that was once a crazy quilt of tiny duchies, principalities and kingdoms. They will need all the ingenuity that got them to 1988 to carry on as Europe's high-fliers, albeit miniature ones, after 1992.
A conference held in Andorra last year found that the microstates really had little in common besides size and prosperity. Once, with the exception of the Vatican, the common denominators were size and poverty. How things have changed. ...
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