An Economic Comparison of Greece and Italy

Theodore Pelagidis

World Economics, 2018, vol. 19, issue 4, 213-222

Abstract: In Greece and Italy, populist parties have taken power in recent years, a result of coalition between radical left and far-right parties. Both countries are of concern to the European Commission—Greece's ‘enhanced surveillance' could end in another bail-out program; Italy is pursuing its budget deficit dispute. Greece and Italy share many economic structural weaknesses in the size of public sector deficits, in the taxation of labour, corporate taxes, and high levels of regulation. Finally, the current and future growth rates of both Greece and Italy are inadequate and the political climate is highly polarized, radical, with no culture of compromising.

Date: 2018
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