Estonia built its economy up from scratch, leapfrogging more advanced nations by taking a risk on the latest technologies, deploying innovative public services, and becoming a model state of the EU. But with an aging population and a heavy dependency on exports is the Estonia model sustainable?
Estonia, or officially the Republic of Estonia, is a state located in northern Europe. Estonia is a member of the European Union and the main feature of its economy, compared with other countries of the Union, is its relatively low taxes. In terms of Bitcoin in Estonia, cryptocurrency is ...
…According to the OECD, Estonia had a tax-to-GDP ratio of 33.5 percent in 2021. This was slightly lower than the OECD average of 34.1 percent. …it is far from being a tax haven. The U.S. tax-to-GDP ratio was 26.6 percent. …Estonia has…consumption taxes above the OECD average....
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PISA 2022 is the first large scale international assessment that claims to capture the impact of Covid-19 on school systems worldwide. Learning loss is observed in many countries around the globe and Estonia is not an exception. However, Estonia is still
Viking-age treasures from Estonia mostly contain silver coins and bars. Compared to its close neighbors,Saaremaa has the richest finds of Viking treasures after Gotland in Sweden. This strongly suggests that Estonia was an important transit country during the Viking era. ...
Forests and woodlands cover almost half of the Estonian territory which ranks us 4th in Europe in that category. An admirable seventeen per cent of the country is afforded protection within nature reserves that vary in size from the large national parks to the smaller, locally protected reserves....
The country's general government deficit increased to about 3.4% of GDP last year, sharply up from a shortfall of just 1% of GDP in 2022. "Compared with 2022, general government revenues grew by 8.2% and expenditures by 14.5%. Thus, expenditures exceeded revenues by 1.3 billion euros, resul...
If appointed, Kallas will need to prove that she can also convincingly speak about other regions, such as Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. An increasing number of EU diplomats in Brussels believe her being from a non-colonial country, compared to her prede...
In contrast to neighbouring Ukraine, strong governance makes Estonia less vulnerable to internal challenges to stability. Yet, potential economic sanctions on Russia could have a profound impact on the Baltic state too, writes Jan Hofmeyr.