Since the start of the global financial crisis, per-capita income growth has stagnated in many advanced economies. Some scholars have interpreted the lack of growth as a temporary phenomenon caused by the legacy of the crisis. Others view the lower long-term growth as a consequence of an unfavou...
This paper looks at the growth stagnation in Europe since the beginning of the crisis, and places it in the light of the longer-term growth slowdown since the 1990s, as well as the projections forward for the remainder of the decade. Using a growth accounting approach, we compare the sources of ...
Since the start of the global financial crisis and despite unprecedented policy support, per-capita income growth has stagnated in many jurisdictions, including the euro area. Some economists have interpreted the lack of growth as a temporary phenomenon caused by the legacy of the crisis, with g...
Europe not only continues to struggle to leave the legacies of the crisis behind it; economic growth remains also weighed down by unfinished macroeconomic adjustment and sluggish implementation of reforms, as well as long-standing poor productivity growth trends. Against that background, the spe...