Mounting funding pressures has tipped Portugal into an acute economic crisis in 2011. The roots of the crisis could be …

Portugal’s economic adjustment has continued, but the contraction in output has been milder than expected. The 2012 …

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix examines Portugal’s real convergence experience, and highlights the …. The paper highlights that an issue for Portugal as a prospective European Monetary Union member is that of the strength of …

This paper reviews economic developments in Portugal during 1990–95. Economic activity rebounded weakly in 1994 …

Macroeconomic imbalances are large, and structural problems are deep-rooted in Portugal. The new government’s strong …

This Selected Issues paper examines the education system and public investment in Portugal. Both areas are generally … considered as critical for Portugal’s prospects for sustaining or accelerating the drive toward real income convergence. Moreover … public investment in Portugal …

This Selected Issues paper and Statistical Appendix on Portugal attempts to “feel the pulse” of Portugal’s banking … financial liberalization process prior to Portugal’s accession to the European Union and its broadening thereafter …

This Selected Issues paper on Portugal reviews a set of issues of relevance to the regime change implied by European … Monetary Union participation. It presents an empirical investigation of the business cycle in Portugal. The paper attempts to … autoregression methodology to characterize the monetary transmission mechanism. It also examines some key forces at work in Portugal …