Portugal: Selected Issues

September 15, 2017

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Portugal: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2017) accessed December 23, 2024

Summary

This paper discusses that the average investment growth needed for Portugal was to achieve the 2-percent and 2.5-percent real GDP growth in the medium term. It is likely that the growth rate of investment must significantly exceed the projected 4.9 percent in order to achieve the GDP growth path envisaged in the 2017 Stability Program. Specifically, per staff estimates, investment needs to grow at around 8.5 percent per year in case the TFP growth remains at -0.26 percent. The challenges confronting Portuguese banks were discussed in the 2016 Article IV staff report, which highlighted low profitability and weak asset quality as key concerns. The regulatory environment has exerted positive pressure insofar as the review of business models has now become an integral part of the supervisory agenda, especially for Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM)-supervised banks. Pursuant to the Capital Requirements Directive IV (CRD-IV), banks’ business models are considered in the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP) performed by the supervisory authorities not only to determine capital and liquidity requirements but also to assess banks’ recovery plans.

Subject: Banking, Labor, Poverty, Production, Public debt, Public employment, Total factor productivity, Wages

Keywords: Cobb-Douglas production function, Consolidation measure, CR, Europe, GDP, Growth path, ISCR, Pay, Portugal, Public employment, Southern Europe, TFP growth, Total factor productivity, Wage bill, Wages

Publication Details

Pages:

50
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2017/279
Stock No:

1PRTEA2017003
ISBN:

9781484319369
ISSN:

1934-7685

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