17.8.15

Dica (116)




«I’ve said this before, but it seems worth emphasizing again in the light of this FT report on Portugal’s “perfect demographic storm.” The debt crisis in Portugal, it turns out, looks alarmingly like the trigger for an economic death spiral: a depressed economy is leading to large-scale emigration of working age Portuguese (also lower fertility, although this will take longer to matter), undermining the tax base, making an exit from crisis even harder. It’s not easy to see how this ends before you’re left with a rump nation of old people with no resources to care for them.»
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