Article: Economic growth to aid German state pensions BRIEFING: BERLIN

Article: The politics of shrinking; German state ...
The Economist (US);  March 25, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... the premiership of the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt after the ... Luther was born there. No other German state has so many sites on UNESCO ... doomsday scenario", arguing that economic growth can still save Saxony-Anhalt ...

Article: Kohl Suffers Major Setback in Eastern German State ...
Xinhua English Newswire;  April 26, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... legislature vote in the eastern German state of Saxony- Anhalt. In Saxony ... largest party in the eastern German state. Analysts attributed the slumping ... percent, the lowest rate of economic growth. With their support ratings ...

Article: Eastern German state vote could be sign of Kohl's ...
AP Online;  April 24, 1998 ;     604 words ... ... factories. Unemployment - the top campaign issue this election year - is a record 22.6 percent in Saxony-Anhalt and economic growth is the weakest in Germany. Kohl generated little enthusiasm at a rally on the Halle market square, despite pledging billions ...

Article: Kohl headed for setback in eastern German state ...
AP Online;  April 25, 1998 ;     510 words ... ... election. But unemployment in the eastern sections remains stuck about twice the national average, and the widening economic growth gap with western Germany is hurting Kohl's image here. Schroeder, who pledges to make Germany more competitive while ...

Article: Fringe parties expected to tap discontent in German ...
AP Worldstream;  September 19, 2004 ;     647 words ... ... warned Georg Braun, head of another trade group, in the Berliner Zeitung. "He harms the image, and through that the economic growth of his home region for years." Despite the protest potential, polls indicated that the Social Democrats and Christian ...

Article: China's Economic Growth to Exceed 8 Percent: Zhu ...
Xinhua English Newswire;  February 23, 1998 ;     475 words ... ... China is expected to maintain an economic growth rate of over eight percent this ... level" compared with the rapid economic growth. Since 1996 China's economy ... between the Chinese side and the German state. During the meeting, Biedenkopf ...

The unpredictable dynamo: Germany's economy, 1870-1918: F.G. Stapleton ...
History Review;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... from the `workshop of the world'. Yet by 1900 the united German State had taken that economic mantle from Britannia. Between ... 1914, the Kaiserreich not only caught up with Britain's economic growth rates but actually surpassed them. This economic progress ...