Of course, national governments would have had to use taxpayer funds to recapitalize northern European banks especially in France and Germany that lent too much to the periphery. And transfers would have been needed to recapitalize the periphery banks.

Deeper European integration, stricter equity requirements for banks, and deeper but homegrown structural reforms are certainly key elements of any solution. Further aid to the European periphery is still badly needed.

There is a center, led by Germany, and a periphery, consisting of the heavily indebted countries. The creditors imposition of strict austerity on the periphery is perpetuating the eurozone s division between center and periphery.

Fiscal austerity in the periphery requires cutting back on imports hence, the countries exporting to the periphery need to curtail their own imports and so the process cascades. This trade multiplier is causing European economies to drag each other down, and the rest of the world is feeling the effects.

D. Globalization threats and opportunities at the periphery

The gain in inflation credibility was offset by weak debt credibility. If the European periphery countries had their own currencies, it is likely that debt problems would morph right back into elevated inflation.

The European Commission has given Spain, France, and the Netherlands more time to comply with the European Union s 3 of GDP deficit ceiling. Even German government officials now concede that something more than fiscal belt tightening is needed to revive the economies of the eurozone periphery.

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MUNICH In August, the European balance of payments crisis moved beyond the Eurozone s periphery and began buffeting Italy. Interest spreads for Italian government bonds began to rise, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi s administration was alarmed enough to implement an austerity program, and the European Central Bank helped with extra liquidity.

The solution is not over here. The solution is on the periphery.

The third stage of the eurozone crisis will arrive when the economic strength of the core is in doubt. Those very doubts undermine the credibility of the safety net that has been supporting the European periphery.

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Because Europe s political leaders have failed to manage the crisis effectively, the cost of ending it has risen. Indeed, an easily manageable financial crisis in Greece was allowed to grow into a life threatening emergency for the states on the southern periphery of the European Union and for the European project as a whole.

The European Union s approach to bank regulation encouraged financial institutions to load up on government debt supposedly a risk free asset. Now, given the profound sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone periphery, government defaults threaten to take down the big banks.

Without external constraints, public and private expenditure grew precipitously in many countries on the eurozone periphery, while wages rose faster than productivity. As these countries posted current account deficits, northern European countries accumulated current account surpluses, exposing a widening competitiveness gap.

Indeed, an easily manageable financial crisis in Greece was allowed to grow into a life threatening emergency for the states on the southern periphery of the European Union and for the European project as a whole. This was statecraft at its worst, for which most of the blame can be laid at German Chancellor Angela Merkel s door.

Without appropriate and affordable housing, refugee women and their families remain on the periphery of society.

It has also provided serviced land for construction on non agricultural lands on the urban periphery.

The cause of the transatlantic growth gap thus should not be sought in excessive eurozone austerity or the excessive prudence of the European Central Bank. There are structural reasons for the eurozone economy s slow recovery from the financial meltdown in its periphery.

Life is strewn with banana skins, and when you step on one you need to be able to adjust. But the monetary union itself turned out to be a gigantic banana skin, inducing capital flows that pushed up costs around the European periphery.

Spain like Greece is spiraling into depression, and may need a full scale bailout by the troika (the ECB, the European Commission, and the International Monetary Fund). Meanwhile, austerity fatigue in the eurozone periphery is increasingly clashing with bailout fatigue in the core.

In fact, the complaints and calls for leadership are mutually reinforcing. The implementation of austerity policies in the periphery has caused these countries to ask for help and request that Germany take the lead by putting more money on the European table.

Latin America and Africa are not the only examples that prove the point. The European Union s internal problems, and its ongoing sovereign debt crisis, are clearly linked to the weakness of its institutions, and, on Europe s periphery, it still confronts feckless democracies.

When the crisis struck, the economies of the eurozone periphery were buffeted by the twin shocks of spiking risk premiums and a collapsing housing market. At the same time, the German economy benefited from the return of capital fleeing the periphery.

Let us not try to relegate it to the periphery, lest we risk serious consequences in the future.

32. Globalization is throwing up new threats and opportunities in the countries at the periphery of central capitalism.

Until now, the Fund has sycophantically supported each new European initiative to rescue the over indebted eurozone periphery, committing more than 100 billion to Greece, Portugal, and Ireland so far. Unfortunately, the IMF is risking not only its members money, but, ultimately, its own institutional credibility.

As is a capacity to discriminate systematically between what is at the core and what is at the periphery.

Here we have food that used to be the center, the social core of the city at the periphery.

Europe s temporizing approach to the crisis cannot work indefinitely. It is not just confidence in Europe s periphery that is waning.

In addition, the recent introduction of neoliberal economic policy models has banished the more traditional rural occupations to the periphery.

The main reason for the gap is the difference in private consumption, which grew in the US, but fell in the eurozone, especially in its periphery. A retrenchment of public consumption actually subtracted more demand in the US (0.8 percentage points) than in the European Union (0.1 points).

So far, programs for the eurozone periphery have been spearheaded and largely financed by European governments, with the IMF contributing financially, but mainly acting as an external consultant the third party that tells the client the nasty bits while everyone else in the room stares at their shoes.

It is clear what is needed a European fiscal authority that is able and willing to reduce the debt burden of the periphery, as well as a banking union. Debt relief could take various forms other than Eurobonds, and would be conditional on debtors abiding by the fiscal compact.

European banks could bulk up in large part because it was assumed that their respective governments backed them. Not only are these banks now large relative to some national economies, but the quality of government credit is now in question across the eurozone periphery up to and including Italy.

Moreover, the grand bargain between the eurozone core, the ECB, and the periphery painful austerity and reforms in exchange for large scale financial support is now breaking down, as austerity fatigue in the eurozone periphery runs up against bailout fatigue in core countries like Germany and the Netherlands.

He had taken note with interest of the informal activities that would take place on the periphery of the Committee's work.

235. If globalization involves costs as well as benefits, being on the periphery of the global economy is even more problematic.

One never knows, for example, when rising debt levels might alarm international investors, who then start demanding sharply higher interest rates, as happened to countries on the European periphery in 2010. We are also uncertain about the magnitude of the negative long term effects of high tax rates on growth.

Ever since the onset of the Greek crisis, there have been basically three schools of thought. First, there is the view of the so called troika (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF), which holds that the eurozone s debt distressed periphery (Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain) requires strong policy discipline to prevent a short term liquidity crisis from morphing into a long term insolvency problem.

The Germans have been insisting on institutional change more centralized eurozone control over periphery banks and government budgets in exchange for expanded access to financing for the periphery. Yet institutional change, despite the euphoria that greeted the latest EU summit, will take time, for it requires careful structuring and broader public support.

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Austerity fatigue in the periphery is clearly evident from the success of anti establishment forces in Italy s recent election large street demonstrations in Spain, Portugal, and elsewhere and now the botched bailout of Cypriot banks, which has fueled massive public anger. Throughout the periphery, populist parties of the left and right are gaining ground.

For example, a growth rebound underpins the expectation that the European periphery will not restructure or inflate away its sovereign debt. The assumption that the German economy will accelerate out of its current crawl is essential to confidence in Europe s financial safety net, and to a banking union that credibly shares risks across the eurozone.