" ليست المشكلة أن نعلم المسلم عقيدة هو يملكها، و إنما المهم أن نرد إلي هذه العقيدة فاعليتها و قوتها الإيجابية و تأثيرها الإجتماعي و في كلمة واحدة : إن مشكلتنا ليست في أن نبرهن للمسلم علي وجود الله بقدر ما هي في أن نشعره بوجوده و نملأ به نفسه، بإعتباره مصدرا للطاقة. " - المفكر الجزائري المسلم الراحل الأستاذ مالك بن نبي رحمه الله -
لنكتب أحرفا من النور، لنستخرج كنوزا من المعرفة و الإبداع و العلم و الأفكار
For decades the image of the archetypal German household has been one of thrifty stoicism in the popular imagination - a stereotype that has been actively encouraged by Angela Merkel, who has often paid homage to the proverbial schwäbische Hausfrau.
That might be changing. The German postwar economic miracle - the Wirtschaftswunder - driven in no small part by the failure of worker pay to keep up with productivity gains is now undergoing a dramatic shift. With unemployment in the country at record lows and wages finally rising, analysts expect the driver of Europe's largest economy to move from exports to consumer spending.
As Hans-Werner Sinn, president of Germany's Ifo institute, said on Wednesday: "Private consumption remains the pillar of the upswing [in 2016] because the income outlook of private households continues to be good on the back of a further improved labor market situation."
Yet not everyone is convinced that this represents a structural shift away from the mercantilist policies of the recent past.
Regulation and reunification
Although Germany has been seen as a powerhouse economy over recent years, churning out solid GDP growth even as the euro-zone as a whole struggled to recover from the financial crisis, in the late 1990s and the early 2000s the country was often called "the sick man of Europe." Growth averaged 1.2 percent between 1998 and 2005, while unemployment climbed into double figures.
In the background, significant changes were afoot. In West Germany in the 1980s a combination of strong labor unions and stringent labor market regulation helped keep negotiated wage settlements high even as the unemployment rate hovered around 8 percent. That meant, in effect, West German industry was becoming less competitive as labor costs outstripped productivity growth and regulations kept potential workers out of the labor supply.
That all started to change in 1990s with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the reunification with East Germany.
While this led to a period of painful adjustment - from 1993-2003 West Germany spent around 900 billion euros ($983 million in net transfers) - it also saw the beginnings of a recovery in competitiveness that would only build momentum over the next two decades.
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