Portugal’s economy has benefited from a series of favourable developments in recent years, causing it to outperform most other euro-zone countries. We think this will continue over the next couple of years, bringing the government debt-to-GDP ratio down below the euro-zone average. But poor demographics mean that growth in Portugal is unlikely to outpace that in the euro-zone in the medium term.
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