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Euro Area Policies: Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation with Member Countries

July 18, 2012

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Euro Area Policies: Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation with Member Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed December 22, 2024

Summary

The 2012 Article IV Consultation report on euro area policies highlights that investors are withholding funding from member states most in need, moving capital “north” and abroad to perceived safer assets. Executive Directors have noted that the euro area continues to face a number of economic challenges amid increasing financial stresses and market fragmentation. Directors have also stressed that it is important that policymakers continue to demonstrate shared and unequivocal commitment—with a clear, credible roadmap—to a deeper integration of the euro area.

Subject: Bank credit, Banking, Deposit insurance, Economic integration, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal policy, Fiscal union, Inflation, Monetary unions, Money, Prices

Keywords: Bank credit, CR, ECB data, ESM framework, ESM resource, Euro, Euro Area authorities, Euro Area recommendation, Europe, European financial stability facility, Fiscal consolidation, Fiscal union, Global, Growth, Headline inflation, Inflation, ISCR, Monetary unions, Rate

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    52

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2012/181

  • Stock No:

    1EUREA2012001

  • ISBN:

    9781475505771

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685