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Sweden is a welfare state said to have solved most social problems. This is, to a large extent, true. But at the beginning of the 1980s, serious problems related to the question of welfare in the geographical sense are obvious. The periphery of Sweden is lagging, and only 2 out of 10 school-leavers in Norrbotten will find a job in the Province.(1) And just outside the northern border of Sweden, militant local action against the Norwegian Central Government(2) is a matter of concern also for Swedish planners, people and politicians.
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Begley, Joe and Parlow, cited in J. Sher, Education in Rural America: A Reassessment of Conventional Wisdom, Ch. 8 (Colorado: Westview Press, 1977).
D. Seers, ‘Theoretical aspects of unequal development’, in Integration and Unequal Development: The Experience of the EEC (London: Macmillan, 1980).
Bernard Schaffer, ‘Spatial dimensions and institutional factors’, IDS Discussion Paper no. 119 (September 1977).
Kjell Öström, ‘Swedish regional development policies: problems remain in the province of Norrbotten’, in Settlement Systems and Regional Policies (Warsaw: Polish Academy of Science, 1980).
SNP Research Department, ‘Who says we need subsidies? The Treasury’s Scottish Budget analysed’ (November 1969).
HM Treasury, A Scottish Budget: Estimates of Central Government Revenue and Expenditure Attributable to Scotland for the Financial Year 1967–8 (London: HMSO, 1969).
G. McCrone, address delivered to the Scottish Economic Society (1969).
For a discussion of the bases of these different estimates, see T. L. Johnston, N. K. Buxton and D. Mair, Structure and Growth of the Scottish Economy (London: Collins, 1971) Chapter 7.
See also Donald MacKay (ed.), Scotland 1980: The Economics of Self Government (Edinburgh: Q Press, 1977).
Kjell Oström, ‘Migration and welfare-Sweden’ (December 1980).
J. Bryden, ‘Core periphery problems-a post-script’, paper to a meeting of Research Council Development Economics Group (March 1980).
J. Bryden, op. cit., and in a paper to the Edinburgh Agricultural Economics Discussion Circle on Land Use Policy (December 1979).
See, for example, G. Cesarini, Rural Production Cooperatives in Southern Italy (Langholm, Dumfries.: The Arkleton Trust, 1979).
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Öström, K., Bryden, J.M. (1983). Regional Development in the Northern Periphery of Sweden: a Failure?. In: Seers, D., Öström, K. (eds) The Crises of the European Regions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06588-2_4
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