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Iceland: Transcending global challenges

Its exceptional rebound from economic collapse after 2008’s financial meltdown stunned the world. Can the Atlantic island’s unique socioeconomic model help it transcend the current global crisis in the same way?

The signs are that it can. Having brought COVID-19 under control early, its economy performed better in the first half of 2020 than many others in the European Economic Area. “A lesson

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