751-Sabar Institute Of Management, Tajpur - Gujarat Technological ...
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1.3 Country Profile<br />
Germany is Europe's most industrialized and populous country. Famed for its technological<br />
achievements, it has also produced some of Europe's most celebrated composers, philosophers<br />
and poets.<br />
Achieving national unity later than other European nations, Germany quickly caught up<br />
economically and militarily, before defeats in World War I and II left the country shattered,<br />
facing the difficult legacy of Nazism, and divided between Europe's Cold War blocs.<br />
Germany rebounded to become the continent's economic giant, and a prime mover of European<br />
cooperation. With the end of the Cold War, the two parts of the country were once again united,<br />
although the economy of the former east continues to lag behind that of the former west.<br />
Germany's economic success since World War II is to a large extent built on its potent export<br />
industries, fiscal discipline and consensus-driven industrial relations and welfare policies. It is<br />
particularly famed for its high-quality and high-tech goods.<br />
Germany's export-dependent economy was initially hit hard by the global financial crisis of<br />
2008-9, which triggered the worst recession since 1949. But by 2010, its exports had helped the<br />
country to rebound more robustly than most other EU members.<br />
However, an ageing population has led to concern over the continued viability of Germany's high<br />
welfare and health spending. There is also a debate about how to improve integration of the<br />
many post-war immigrants whose labour helped fuel the economic boom.<br />
In addition, what was once the German Democratic Republic, the former Soviet-dominated east,<br />
has struggled to catch up with the more affluent west after reunification, while people in west<br />
had to pay a higher than expected financial price.<br />
The pain of Germany's Nazi-era history remains a sensitive element in the country's collective<br />
modern-day psyche. Out of the devastation of World War II grew an awareness of the need to<br />
guard against any such catastrophe recurring on the continent.<br />
In the 1950s Germany was one of the six founding nations in the original European Economic<br />
Community from which the European Union was eventually to develop and in which Germany is<br />
a key player. Franco-German cooperation was central to European economic integration in the<br />
1980s and 90s.<br />
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