Sweden readies infrastructure boom to help lower unemployment
Stockholm
SWEDEN'S government will work to reverse a 30-year stagnation in public and private investments to meet its main pledge of lowering unemployment.
Finance Minister Magdalena Andersson said there's a big potential, since public investments as a share of the Swedish economy have been stable since the 1980s while private investments have dropped. The Social Democratic-led government will target spending on roads and railways, including high-speed networks to connect the biggest cit…
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