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is not systemati- cally the case. Fiscal policy in the context of globalization is con- fronted with the reality of increased cross-border Sweden, Finland Denmark Italy Austria France Ireland 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 EATR (%); productivity ratio (96) Source: Sorensen (2000). Figure 1 Effect

2 297.6 MENA 684.5 963.2 15.5 15.9 162.9 LAC 1130.7 1375.5 11.4 145.1 1133.5 East Asia and Pacific 1974.3 1881.7 7.8 339.8 1286.6 Central Europe and Asia 1273.9 1509.9 10.7 73.8 1095.3 South Asia 375.9 60.7 16.7 40.3 461.8 Developing world 5889.5 6152.8 131.8 735.2 Sources: a

projects. Another was Young Karelia, which sponsors puppet shows for children in Karelian—a language closely related to that spoken in neighboring Finland. The latter group was declared a foreign agent in part because of a $10,000 grant from the United Nations.'2 The undesirables Once it was the CIA

, and ways of doing things that had strengthened democratic governance in some of the more successful post-au- thoritarian societies, especially in Central Europe. More recently, modern authoritarian regimes have turned this concept on its head by sharing their own experiences with laws and tactics that have

ics, from Central Asia to the Baltic Sea, almost all of the far- flung dominions of the Romanovs were once more under a single flag. Only Poland and Finland were able to resist incorporation into the Soviet Union, and the Poles were forced into the Warsaw Pact. Lenin and Stalin were able to rebuild the

would be a smaller and more poorly situated power than the Soviet Union. Germany remains united, Poland is free, and Russia cannot hope to dominate Central Europe as the USSR once did. European fecklessness dragged the Clinton administration kicking and screaming into the morass of the bloody wars of the Yugo

nt projects. Another was Young Karelia, which sponsors puppet shows for children in Karelian—a language closely related to that spoken in neighboring Finland. The latter group was declared a foreign agent in part because of a $10,000 grant from the United Nations.” The undesirables Once it was the CIA th

es, and ways f doing things that had strengthened democratic governance in some of the more successful post-au- thoritarian societies, especially in Central Europe. ore recently, modern authoritarian regimes have turned this concept on its head by sharing their own experiences with laws and tactics that have th