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Pabriks: But whom would you like Latvia to follow in the first place?

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I’m posting a link to a brief interview of Artis Pabriks, LV Defence Minister, to the public Latvijas Radio on the Wikileaks commotion, broadcast on 1 December (well, better late than never). With all my genuine sympathy for openness and honesty, I have to admit my deep respect to the mastery Artis has demonstrated in […]

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What’s Latvia good at?

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Why is someone better off at producing hi-tech and why Latvia only seems to be good at digging holes? Morten Hansen is rightly pinpointing the disadvantages of the Latvian economic design: the lack of modern skills, inadequate supply of physical capital and the burden of an inflated public sector. Continuing the same logic, poor skills

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