James Bartholomew

Swiss welfare runs like clockwork

There is plenty to learn from the way healthcare, education and social security are managed in Switzerland, says James Bartholomew

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In Britain we are now glumly entering the age of austerity and everyone expects unemployment to go on rising. This has been the case in the past: even when the economy starts to grow, there is a painfully long lag before unemployment starts to fall. But not in Switzerland is different.

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James Bartholomew
James Bartholomew works with the Museum of Communist Terror and is a trustee of the Foundation for the History of Totalitarianism.

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