The Netherlands in 2003
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Case Details:
Case Code : ECOA109
Case Length : 19 Pages
Period : 2003
Organization : -
Pub Date : 2003
Teaching Note :Not Available
Countries : Netherlands, Europe
Industry : -
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The polder model, it is often said, demonstrates that
economies can grow and jobs can be created without dismantling the rigid and
overly generous European social-welfare system. Similarly, it is argued that
consensus policies, agreed across the political spectrum (coalition government
is inherent in the Dutch electoral system), are the best way of dealing with
social problems
- The Economist, 2nd May 2002.
Introduction
The Netherlands had become one of the most developed countries in the world,
despite limited natural resources. Much of the modern Netherlands had been
reclaimed from the sea. Since the 1980s, the Dutch economy had grown
impressively at an average rate of 3.0%.
In terms of per capita GDP, the Netherlands was the fourth most prosperous
economy in the European union. Through most of the 1990s, the Dutch seemed to
have mastered the art of combining high growth rate, low unemployment and low
inflation.
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The Dutch polder model, which emphasized consensus building
among government, businessmen and unions, had attracted the attention of
economists and policy makers all over the world...
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