What are others doing? It's interesting. The Nordic countries in northern Europe tend to be the star performers on almost all indicators. From the research we do, and from what I've read from other sources, the key difference-maker for the Nordic countries is governance, the quality of governance across the board in the private sector; in the public sector, it's the quality of public services, the ability to actually form consensus around the right policies. So if there's any one factor, I think, that anybody points to, it's probably around governance. It's not necessarily economic policy. That's the product of a governance process where they're prepared to take hard decisions in some cases about changing the course of the country and ensuring that they have the right kinds of anchors in place.
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