Based on this data, it becomes less of a surprise that Ireland’s economy has turned around the most of the bailed out countries.
What’s striking is that after Ireland and Belgium, the next four countries that benefit from a weak-Euro policy represent the core. Considering the periphery’s relatively small percentage of GDP from extra-Eurozone exports (with Spain not even making the list), further weakening of the Euro can not be expected to return those countries to economic growth or a sustainable fiscal position. With governments still being pressured to contract deficits, the only remaining growth engine is a generally indebted private sector.
The ECB may finally recognize the necessary steps to prevent a collapse of the EMU, but future growth remains elusive.
This is not a very good list. Ireland's exports are mostly a fiscal accounting trick by multinationals that are based there so as to pay less taxes. It's not that they are manufacturing and exporting.
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