Undersized: could Greenland be the new Iceland? should it be?
As Greenland moves away from Denmark and acquires more autonomy, this column asks whether it might be too small. In assessing the relationship between country size and economic performance, it warns that small states have more volatile GDP, more volatile consumption, and more incompetent civil serva...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Centre for Economic Policy Research
2009
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/9671/ http://www.voxeu.org/article/could-greenland-be-new-iceland |
| Summary: | As Greenland moves away from Denmark and acquires more autonomy, this column asks whether it might be too small. In assessing the relationship between country size and economic performance, it warns that small states have more volatile GDP, more volatile consumption, and more incompetent civil servants. |
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