{"id":13884,"date":"2023-08-31T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=13884"},"modified":"2023-11-03T11:15:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T10:15:13","slug":"this-country-is-punching-far-beyond-its-weight-what-it-means-to-be-small-but-global-a-view-from-geography","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/news\/this-country-is-punching-far-beyond-its-weight-what-it-means-to-be-small-but-global-a-view-from-geography\/","title":{"rendered":"This country is punching far beyond its weight. 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It illustrates the foundational fact that Luxembourg has considerably more economic power and dynamism that its size and institutional set-up can accommodate. This is the basic problem that runs through all development and planning conflicts, reinforced by institutional and procedural complexity and inertia. Appropriate strategies need to be structural. However, current practice is constrained by three different sorts of illusion: a growth illusion; a steering illusion; and a sustainability illusion. 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