Talk:Economy of Luxembourg

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[edit] Enormous GDP per capita

How do they accomplish their enormous GDP per capita (currency PPP)?--Jerryseinfeld 03:35, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Luxembourg is a tax haven, in case you haven't noticed. --Jordibc 21:10, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I think this article would benefit from an expanded explanation of how Luxembourg achieves its per capita GDP. As a minor second point, there should be an expanded commentry on whether the small "productive" farms are in fact EU farm subsidy recipients.

[edit] This page is not up to date

Arbed does not exist anymore and has merged into Arcelor. The page also refers to satellites that *will* be sent in 2000. Does anyone have more up-to-date information on this?

I did some basic changes to take into account of the merger of Arbed into the new Arcelor, and SES Global, with links to the appropriate wiki pages.

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This page clearly needs updating!! About the qualification "tax haven": one would need a clear definition (?OECD) but to my sense Luxembourg isnt't a general one like Monaco or other very small states. The banking industry depends among others on the strict banking secrecy, a feature shared notably by the Swiss banking industry. I will try to work on the page over the next weeks. For anyone interested in the Luxembourg economy: just mail me (ferdy.adam@statec.etat.lu) or have a look at www.statistiques.public.lu). The link to the OECD statistics page on Luxembourg seems very rich. FA