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Overcoming Europe’s Twin Growth Challenges

As economic recovery finally begins to take hold in Europe, the imperative for policymakers is to ensure that growth can be sustained far into the future. To do so, they will have to address the biggest threat to the continent’s long-term prospects: a toxic twosome of weak demographics and low investment.

MUNICH – As economic recovery finally begins to take hold in Europe, the imperative for policymakers is to ensure that growth can be sustained far into the future. Fiscal and monetary stimulus may have been appropriate at the peak of the crisis, but they will do little to address the biggest threat to the continent’s long-term prospects: a toxic twosome of weak demographics and low investment.

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