Britain has a lot of family-owned and family-run businesses, more than Germany (where family-owned businesses are usually professionally managed) and many more than America.
It is borrowing less than half what the UK government is borrowing per head according to the OECD and only about 20% more than Germany.
British cars are driven a third more than in Germany and 20% more than in France.
Its exports have grown more slowly than Germany's, but private consumption has advanced at almost triple the rate.
It does not come cheap: the OECD reckons that they spend 3-4% of GDP on direct benefits to families, far more than do Germany, Japan and southern Europe.
Prices do too: many grades of steel sell in Denmark for some 15% more than in Germany while, in turn, German prices are often 8-12% higher than those in France.
It is as though the ECB just looks at the German economy which had an impressive set of results lately, however, the EZ is more than just Germany and most of the economies on the periphery, including Ireland and Greece, are mired in recession.
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The IMF forecasts that GDP will shrink by 4.4% this year, less than in Germany but more than in Britain, France and Spain.
But, partly because of its enlargement to the east, the EU is now centred more on Germany than on France.
Nowhere in Europe is the need for change more urgent than in Germany, now the sick man of the continent.
And nowhere more so than in Germany, where opinion polls suggest two-thirds of the population are against their country's participation in the NATO mission.
Vehicles, machines, electronic devices and chemicals account for more than half of Germany's exports, and exports provided nearly all Germany's growth from 2001 to 2007.
The situation is certainly desperate, and nowhere more so than in Germany, which has enjoyed the dubious distinction of being the slowest-growing member of the European Union for three years running.
Thanks to our relative demographic dynamism, the America of 50 years hence may not only have more workers per retiree than countries like Japan and Germany, but also have more than emerging powers like China and Brazil.
If the Sun and its rivals are more aggressive than Bild, it is because competition in Britain is more intense than it is in Germany, or anywhere else.
In Britain, part-timers fill 25% of jobs, not much more than in France or Germany.
"That's more than all those in Germany, France, Italy and Turkey put together, " Ms Lyon said.
Deithelm is a third generation Namibian, whose grandfather arrived in the country from Germany more than a half-century ago.
And - on one measure, at least - our economy is now even more important to Germany than France.
None have had more experience in this than Germany's solar installers, who are cashing in on their government's generous subsidies for solar power.
For a start, Mr Blair inherited an economy which, thanks to the Thatcher reforms of the 1980s, was much more entrepreneur-friendly than Germany's.
The report found that the U.S. has negotiated the return of more than 100 facilities to Germany since 2005, yet they haven't been included in the residual value settlements between the two countries.
However, those countries were never major destinations for Russians to begin with, and the massive declines in movement to places such as the United States and Germany more than compensate for any increase.
The profession in the Alsace region has been deeply hurt by increases in cigarette taxes since 2002, which mean that a packet on the French side of the border is 20% more expensive than in neighbouring Germany.
Recent research by Morgan Stanley, an investment bank, found that more than 30% of Germany's workforce are now employed in part-time or temporary jobs, meaning that firms can deploy their labour much more flexibly than in the past.
German unit late last year, the largest public offering in Germany in more than five years.
Both the United Kingdom and Germany had more than 20 U.S. investments on the list.
Germany supplies more than 12% of world exports of chemicals, the biggest single share.
Germany has more than 4, 000 troops in Afghanistan, the third largest contingent after the US and Britain.
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