The generous welfare systems in Sweden and the country's extensive environmental protections are frequently held up as international models.

瑞典优厚的社会福利制度在和国家的环保经常被推崇为国际典范。

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Continental countries (France, Germany, Belgium and the like), with their generous welfare systems, are good at helping people avoid poverty, but less good at getting them into work.

大陆型国家(法国、德国、比利时等国)有慷慨的福利制度，善于帮助人们免于贫困，但不那么擅长鼓励就业。

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However, Carnegie notes that the fiscal budgets of many oil-exporting countries were rising prior to the citizen revolution due to a lack of non-oil revenues, rapid population growth and generous welfare systems.

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In fact, the current crisis would not have occurred if past euro-zone governments had financed their bloated bureaucracies and overly generous welfare systems not by borrowing against the savings of future generations but instead by asset sales.

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