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Economy-wide deleveraging may be over

The economy-wide deleveraging process, which has constrained the economic recovery over the past four years, may now be over. Moreover, as any remaining deleveraging in the household sector can be achieved by debt rising at a slower pace than income, household debt is probably passed its trough.

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