A joint workshop with the Institute for Future Studies on `Country Studies' was held in Lund on 11/12 June. The workshop formed part of CEPR's research initiative on `Comparative Experience of Economic Growth in Postwar Europe', which is supported by a SPES grant from the Commission of the European Communities. It was organized by Nick Crafts, Professor of Economic History at the University of Warwick and Gianni Toniolo, Professor of Economics at the Università degli Studi di Venezia, Research Fellows in CEPR's Human Resources programme, and Lars Jonung, Chief Economic Adviser at the Prime Minister's Office, Stockholm. The following papers were presented:

`British Economic Growth Since 1945: Relative Economic Decline...
and Renaissance?', Nick Crafts (University of Warwick and CEPR)

`Post-war Growth in Belgium', Isabelle Cassiers (Université Catholique de Louvain) and Peter Solar (Vesalius College, Brussels)

`Growth and the Welfare State: The Swedish Case', Magnus Henrekson (Trade Union Institute for Economic Research, Stockholm), Lars Jonung and Joakim Stymne (Prime Minister's Office, Stockholm)

`Characteristics of Economic Growth in the Netherlands During The Postwar Period', Bart van Ark, Jakob de Haan and Herman de Jong (Universiteit Groningen)

`Portuguese Post-war Growth: A Global Approach', Joâo César das Neves (Cabinete do Primeiro Ministro, Lisboa)

`Why Are the Differences in Per-Capita Incomes so Large and Persistent?', Mancur Olson (University of Maryland)

`Irish Economic Growth, 1945-1988', Cormac Gráda (University College Dublin and CEPR) and Kevin O'Rourke (University College Dublin)

`Italy's Economic Performance: 1945-1990', Nicola Rossi (Università degli Studi di Venezia) and Gianni Toniolo (Università degli Studi di Venezia and CEPR)

`West German Economic Growth 1945-1992', Wendy Carlin (University College, London) and Rolf Dumke (Universität der Bundeswehr-München and CEPR)

`An Exercise in Futility: East German Growth and Decline', Albrecht Ritschl (Universität München)

`What We Know and What We Want to Know About European Growth', Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley, and CEPR)

`Post-war Growth in the Danish Economy', Peder J Pedersen (Aarhus Universitet)

`Long Term Trend of Economic Growth in Czechoslovakia', Mojinit Hajek (Institute of Economics, Prague) and Jan Klacek and Vladimir Nachtigal (Czech National Bank)