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International Labour Review, a journal of the International Labour Organization (ILO), published in 1956 a detailed overview on the social-political cooperation between the Nordic countries — Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. It was written by Kaare Salvesen, an official in the Norwegian Ministry of Social Affairs and the Chairman of the United Nations Social Commission. He had recently as an invited UN adviser informed a social-political conference of Arab countries about this cooperation. Concluding his overview, Salvesen noted:
These five countries follow one social policy in its broadest sense: they introduce successively, and try to co-ordinate, national programmes consistent with a common view of the responsibility of the community towards those in distress, upon the necessity to give everyone fair and equal opportunities, upon the relation between the State and the individual, and upon the interrelationship between economic and social progress. The result is that the pattern of social legislation is, though differing in details, more homogeneous over the Northern area than it is in many federal States.1
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Kettunen, P. (2013). The ILO as a Forum for Developing and Demonstrating a Nordic Model. In: Kott, S., Droux, J. (eds) Globalizing Social Rights. International Labour Organization (ILO) Century Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291967_13
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