Friday, 4 March 2016

Eurozone structural policy: Game changer, or game over? (Brian Pinto, Brookings)

Reuters/Vincent Kessler - European Central Bank President Mario Draghi addresses the European Parliament during a debate on the ECB Annual Report for 2014, in Strasbourg, France, February 1, 2016.

Implement structural policy, or structural reform, and you will solve the problem of stagnant growth in the Eurozone! At least that’s the impression created by the September 2014 Geneva Report on deleveraging (see Figure 3A.3, page 31). And no one has argued the case more forcefully than European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, who took office in November 2011 when Greece was in a meltdown, Italian sovereign 10-year bond yields had crossed the psychological threshold of seven percent, and investors were concerned about the very survival of the euro.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/future-development/posts/2016/03/04-eurozone-structural-policy-pinto

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