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Can Portugal avoid another lost decade?

Portugal seems very likely to become the third peripheral euro-zone country to need a bail-out. But it also faces much greater challenges if it is to overcome the deep-seated structural problems which have held back the economy for the last ten years and hence avoid another “lost decade”.

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