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May 28, 2012
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Understanding the Social Democratic collapse
Analysis & Opinion: 13 Oct 10
The Social Democrats' stinging defeat in Sweden’s September 19th election is part of a systemic shift in European society, write Moderate Party MP Johnny Munkhammar and Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think tank.
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'Inflexible welfare model keeping young Swedes out of work'
Analysis & Opinion: 5 Mar 10
An excessively rigid labour market is at the root of Sweden's high youth unemployment and helps explain the recent proliferation of young people in early retirement schemes, argues Nima Sanandaji, CEO of the Captus think tank.
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Sweden lagging behind in equality for women professionals
Analysis & Opinion: 10 Nov 09
Sweden's much-vaunted gender equality statistics do not stretch as far as the boardrooms of private companies, an area in which the country has fallen way off the international pace, argues Nima Sanandaji.
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'High taxes do not equate to an effective welfare state'
Analysis & Opinion: 25 May 09
Sweden's high tax regime is counterproductive: rather than focusing on the improvement of core services, it has led to a bloated bureaucracy and an inefficient welfare state, argue Nima Sanandaji and Robert Gidehag of the Swedish Taxpayers Association.
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'Taxes still too high in Sweden'
Analysis & Opinion: 3 Mar 09
Sweden's government needs to continue lowering taxes if the country is to get to grips with excessive public spending and an eroding work ethic, argues Nima Sanandaji.
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'Tap the potential of immigrant entrepreneurs'
Analysis & Opinion: 3 Feb 09
Sweden could learn a lot from Canada and the UK when it comes to leveraging the power of entrepreneurship to help integrate immigrants, writes Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think tank.
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Stagnation in your Swedish town? Blame Florida
Analysis & Opinion: 14 Oct 08
Which comes first: urban creativity or sound economic growth? Nima Sanandaji aims to separate the chickens from the eggs as he examines the influence on Swedish policy-makers of US urban theorist Richard Florida.
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Reports of routine Swedish racism 'grossly exaggerated'
Analysis & Opinion: 23 Sep 08
While immigrants can find it difficult to establish a foothold on the job market in Sweden, politicians, intellectuals and the media are often too quick to make employment a race issue, writes Nima Sanandaji.
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Sweden's welfare programmes hinder Iraqi integration
Analysis & Opinion: 15 Jul 08
By emphasizing welfare programmes over work and entrepreneurship, Sweden makes it harder for Iraqi immigrants to achieve success in their new country, argues Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think tank.
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Immigrants and the young: Left behind by Swedish left?
Analysis & Opinion: 20 May 08
Sweden's political left should embrace free market reforms if it is to achieve its goals for a more equitable society, writes Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think tank.
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Sweden should look to US for welfare solutions
Analysis & Opinion: 22 Apr 08
Sweden has a lot to learn from the United States when it comes to reducing welfare dependency, writes Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think tank.
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Green Party policies fail to tackle emissions
Analysis & Opinion: 1 Apr 08
Just because a party calls itself Green doesn't necessarily mean it has the most environmentally friendly policies, argues Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think tank.
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'Swedish feminists should embrace free markets'
Analysis & Opinion: 18 Mar 08
Swedish feminists could well secure more support if they decided to embrace free markets rather than left wing ideologies, argues Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think tank.
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Bending the rules: Sweden in transition
Analysis & Opinion: 26 Feb 08
Nima Sanandaji speaks to one of the co-authors of a book examining the increasing propensity of Swedes to skirt around the edges of the country's tax and social welfare systems.
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Reinfeldt should listen to criticism from business owners
Analysis & Opinion: 13 Feb 08
Criticism of the government from business owners is falling on deaf ears, says Nima Sanandaji from the Captus think tank.
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What future for Swedish research?
Analysis & Opinion: 15 Jan 08
Half of Swedish R&D investment comes from 20 companies. This poses risks for the future, says Nima Sanandaji.
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Ideology is no basis for international development
Analysis & Opinion: 7 Nov 07
Sweden's international development agency, SIDA, relies on left-wing ideology rather than facts and logic, argues Nima Sanandaji, from the Captus think tank.
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SFI is failing immigrants
Analysis & Opinion: 17 Oct 07
SFI language courses aim to promote basic understanding of the Swedish language and society. But, argues Captus's Nima Sanandaji, with low pass rates and politicized content, neither aim is fulfilled.
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Sweden needs a better business climate
Analysis & Opinion: 2 Oct 07
The new government has made job creation a major priority. But, argues Nima Sanandaji of think-tank Captus, they are still doing too little to make life easier for businesses.
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What has competition done for us?
Analysis & Opinion: 12 Sep 07
The alternative to free competition is to let politicians and interests groups make all the decisions, argues Nima Sanandaji, of the Captus think tank.
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How persistent can a failed ideology be?
Analysis & Opinion: 27 Aug 07
Ninety percent of Swedish students aged 15-20 do not know what a gulag was, and some still insist that schools should not teach about the crimes of communism. How long will the elites continue defending a failed ideology, asks Captus's Nima Sanandaji.
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Things are good, so why are we so pessimistic?
Analysis & Opinion: 31 Jul 07
New research shows us that people around the world, including in the West, are satisfied with their lives and are enjoying a rising quality of life. So why are westerners so pessimistic, asks Nima Sanandaji, of think-tank Captus.
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Challenging the Nordic labour market model
Analysis & Opinion: 9 Jul 07
The much vaunted Nordic labour market model is not without its flaws and could benefit from borrowing elements from the rest of Europe, writes Nima Sanandaji of think-thank Captus.
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Union power should come with responsibility
Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jun 07
Swedish interest rate rises have been pushed on by high wage demands from trade unions. The unions' short-term gains are being won at the expense of the economy as a whole, argues Nima Sanandaji of think-tank Captus.
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Time to speak up for entrepreneurs
Analysis & Opinion: 12 Jun 07
Sweden has many of the prerequisites for becoming a good country to be an entrepreneur. But negative attitudes to entrepreneurship need to change – something a new campaign hopes to achieve, says Nima Sanandaji of the Captus think-tank.
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Swedish firms need tax cuts too
Analysis & Opinion: 29 May 07
Sweden public debate on tax cuts has focused on the tax burden for individuals. But Sweden's companies also labour under one of the EU's highest tax burdens, argues Captus's Nima Sanandaji.
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Who pays for Sweden's free lunch?
Analysis & Opinion: 14 May 07
Sweden's generous welfare system has long relied on the strong protestant work ethic of its citizens to stop abuse of state handouts. But the system itself has served to break down the protestant work ethic, argues Captus's Nima Sanandaji.
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What's the point of protesting?
Analysis & Opinion: 30 Apr 07
When Sweden's labour movement takes to the streets on May 1st this year, they will for once have something other than a socialist government to protest against. But, argues Captus's Nima Sanandaji, they overestimate the influence of ideology on politics.
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Sweden's right tempers its love for the EU
Analysis & Opinion: 16 Apr 07
The Swedish centre-right has traditionally looked positively on the EU as a champion of the free market. But now an increasing volume of regulation from Brussels has led some to take a more critical approach, says Nima Sanandaji of think tank Captus.
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Christian Democrats signal Swedish shift to nuclear power
Analysis & Opinion: 2 Apr 07
As Sweden's Christian Democrats shed their opposition to nuclear power, the unthinkable has become possible: Sweden may well reinvest in nuclear energy, argues Nima Sanandaji of think tank Captus.
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Time to put knowledge at the centre of Swedish education
Analysis & Opinion: 19 Mar 07
Academic knowledge has been sidelined in Swedish education over the past few decades. A return to more grading is welcome, but more action is needed, argues Nima Sanandaji of think-tank Captus.
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Jobs for immigrants: don't blame discrimination
Analysis & Opinion: 5 Mar 07
Immigrants' average earnings are well below those of native Swedes. But the differences have less to do with discrimination than with over-regulation, high taxes and high welfare, says Nima Sanandaji of think-tank Captus.
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Sweden's entrepreneurs face an uphill struggle
Analysis & Opinion: 19 Feb 07
Sweden ranks 18th out of the EU's 25 member states in measures of the number of entrepreneurs in society. But the government doesn't seem to have grasped the need for reform, argues Nima Sanandaji of think-tank Captus.
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Littorin should stand up to union pressure
Analysis & Opinion: 5 Feb 07
Labour minister Sven Otto Littorin has backed unions blockading a small salad bar in Gothenburg. But the unions deserve to be criticized, argues Nima Sanandaji of think-tank Captus.
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Throwing taxpayers' money into the trash
Analysis & Opinion: 22 Jan 07
Local politicians in Sweden are wasting huge amounts of money – and breaking the law – by giving waste management contracts to companies owned by municipal councils, says Nima Sanandaji of think-tank Captus.
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'Lost' Swedish aid millions are the tip of the iceberg
Analysis & Opinion: 8 Jan 07
Swedish foreign aid agency SIDA spent 22 million kronor trying to find out how many people are publicly employed in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is not the only example of wasted foreign aid, says Nima Sanandaji.
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Swedes see the funny side of Soviet power
Analysis & Opinion: 27 Dec 06
Nima Sanandaji reviews a new Swedish book analysing the use of humour under the totalitarianism of the Societ Union and a web site explaining how Soviet rule of Sweden's neighbours in the Baltic has affected the region.
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Castro tributes reveal Swedish journalists' bias
Analysis & Opinion: 11 Dec 06
When Swedish public TV channel SVT broadcast a series of programmes praising Fidel Castro's reign in Cuba it showed that Swedish journalism's left-wing bias remains, argues Nima Sanandaji.
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Sweden owes a debt to Friedman
Analysis & Opinion: 27 Nov 06
Milton Friedman, who has died aged 94, combined a scientific mind with a passion for social issues. And he had a surprisingly big impact on Sweden, writes Nima Sanandaji
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Sweden must reform to stay afloat
Analysis & Opinion: 13 Nov 06
While Sweden's economic future looks bright in many respects, it will soon lose its competitive edge without major reforms to the role of the public sector, argues Nima Sanandaji
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Bolder steps needed to get Sweden's economy moving
Analysis & Opinion: 17 Oct 06
The budget unveiled by the new Swedish government is far from being "neo-libertarian", as the Social Democrats have suggested. But the Alliance will need to embrace a more radical agenda if it is to deal with Sweden's economic problems, argues Nima Sanandaji
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The end of Sweden?s one-party state
Analysis & Opinion: 18 Sep 06
The defeat of the Social Democrats could turn Sweden into a normal democracy, where it is common for power to change hands, argues Nima Sanandaji of Swedish think-tank Captus.
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