Portugal: Selected Issues

May 18, 2015

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Portugal: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed December 20, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper takes stock of structural reforms in Portugal from a firm-level perspective. Structural reforms were the main available policy tool to mend Portugal’s accumulated imbalances. Portugal’s macroeconomic toolbox was severely constrained by monetary union membership and spillover considerations. This paper discusses what structural reforms were supposed to achieve at the firm level. It documents a few stylized facts about Portuguese firms and describes the structural reform agenda. The paper also reports the results of a firm survey on the perceived effectiveness of the structural reforms.

Subject: Expenditure, Labor, Labor markets, Macrostructural analysis, Public debt, Structural reforms

Keywords: Banco de Portugal, CR, DVA export, Export, Global, Gross export, IMF staff calculation, ISCR, Labor markets, Portugal, Portugal's growth challenge, Southern Europe, Structural reforms

Publication Details

Pages:

122
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2015/127
Stock No:

1PRTEA2015003
ISBN:

9781475555790
ISSN:

1934-7685

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