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Spain’s sluggish post-pandemic recovery
Spain’s economic recovery is proving weaker than initially predicted, with 2021 growth now projected to come in 1.2 percentage points lower than in the previous forecast. Inflation will continue to be a key source of risk, with the potential to further undermine household and business…
Lagging productivity and the need for structural reforms in Spain
Autores:
Maudos, Joaquín
Spanish productivity has lagged both the US and eurozone for the past two decades due to lower investment in key areas, such as technological and human capital, among others. Although the European recovery funds should facilitate investment in areas like digitalisation, structural reforms will also…
Spain’s recent performance implementing the recovery funds and outlook for 2022
Spain is set to received 140 billion euros as part of the Next Generation EU funds to facilitate the country’s recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, with a focus on the green and digital transitions. So far, progress on executing plans to use these funds has…
Spain’s sluggish post-pandemic recovery
Spain’s economic recovery is proving weaker than initially predicted, with 2021 growth now projected to come in 1.2 percentage points lower than in the previous forecast. Inflation will continue to be a key source of risk, with the potential to further undermine household and business…
Newsletter: The EU needs new fiscal rules
Autores:
Torres, Raymond
This week we are taking a close look at what happened at the UN COP26 Glasgow summit. Are we going in the right direction in the fight against climate change after this important event?