Portugal : Staff Report for the 2008 Article IV Consultation.
Portugal's 2008 Article IV Consultation highlights that Portugal's financial system remains sound and well supervised. Portugal has accumulated substantial macroeconomic imbalances, and the policy challenge is to smooth the adjustment, containing domestic demand while increasing productivi...
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| Format: | Journal |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2008.
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| Series: | IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ;
No. 2008/323 |
| Online Access: | Full text available on IMF |
| Summary: | Portugal's 2008 Article IV Consultation highlights that Portugal's financial system remains sound and well supervised. Portugal has accumulated substantial macroeconomic imbalances, and the policy challenge is to smooth the adjustment, containing domestic demand while increasing productivity and flexibility, thus rebalancing growth to the external sector. The weaker global conditions should thus be taken as a reason to strengthen efforts to reignite the stalled convergence process and continue fiscal consolidation and reform. |
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| Item Description: | <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (58 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet |
| ISSN: | 1934-7685 |
| Access: | Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students |