Le Portugal et l`Euro

João Andrade

No 2017-08, CeBER Working Papers from Centre for Business and Economics Research (CeBER), University of Coimbra

Abstract: The European economic and monetary integration of Portugal should be analyzed from a historical perspective, taking into account not only economic but also political aspects. Despite its colonial heritage, Portugal is a country of emigrants in which Europe holds a very important part. Portuguese people have a European feeling they do not forget a dictatorship that has lasted almost half a century. The incomes of Portuguese are nowadays much higher as also the level of fixed capital - especially in infrastructure - and human capital than before European integration. The recent economic problems of the Portuguese economy are the result of imbalances that developed during the years after the Democratic Revolution. The absence of more appropriate policies for a monetary zone with a fixed exchange rate and with financial shocks caused by the reduction of interest rates and the massive entry of structural funds is responsible for the poor performance of the Portuguese economy after 2002 At present the banking crisis and public debt does not allow the exit of the Euro. But in spite of this constraint Portuguese governments and the great majority of the political parties envisage a deeper integration on the monetary union.

Keywords: Emigration; dictatorship; democracy; public debt; real exchange rate; Euro. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 E42 N10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2017-07
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