Portugal : Staff Report for the 2008 Article IV Consultation.

Portugal's 2008 Article IV Consultation highlights that Portugal's financial system remains sound and well supervised. Portugal has accumulated substantial macroeconomic imbalances, and the policy challenge is to smooth the adjustment, containing domestic demand while increasing productivi...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2008/323
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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