The response to the crisis in the EU: Spain on the way to its “lost decade”

In the context of the present global crisis, the impositions of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), mainly with respect to the control of the budget deficit and the need for new structural reforms in the public pension system and the labor market, are a species...

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Autor: Casais, Enrique
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Problemas del Desarrollo. Revista Latinoamericana de Economía
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/25890
Acceso en línea:https://www.probdes.iiec.unam.mx/index.php/pde/article/view/25890
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:España
Unión Europea
crisis
déficit
BCE
Spain
European Union
deficit
ECB
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Sumario:In the context of the present global crisis, the impositions of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), mainly with respect to the control of the budget deficit and the need for new structural reforms in the public pension system and the labor market, are a species of “economic suicide” for the peripheral countries of the European Union (EU), among which is Spain. These policies will condemn Spain to a long period of recession and high unemployment, which leads us to affirm that, if these policies not changed, Spain will experience its own “Lost Decade”.