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The external adjustment has only just begun

Most peripheral euro-zone economies have made impressive progress in narrowing their current account deficits. But so far this is only a correction in flows; theses economies have made little or no headway in paying down their stock of external debt. As such, the peripheral economies still face a long and grinding external adjustment ahead.

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