Pessoa, Argentino - European Regional Science Association - 2013
consolidation and explains why austerity is so fiercely advocated by both core and periphery governments. The main reasons for the … governments, in cooperation with the European Commission, the ECB and the IMF, based on further austerity and wage cuts aggravate … to its disintegration. Considering the debt crisis as a problem of the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain …