Similar incentives to encourage investment and outsourcing to peripheral euro-zone countries might do the trick.
What would it take to get Europe's big investors buying the peripheral euro-zone countries' debt again?
How much official Chinese money has found its way into peripheral euro-zone countries is a matter of guesswork.
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In the current European crisis, ratings firms had begun to downgrade peripheral euro-zone countries years before bond markets woke up to default risk.
Ireland, a fellow euro zone peripheral that is also in trouble, has no major hidden liabilities left in its banking system, with pretty much everything now out in the open (as far as we know).
Another alternative is to let peripheral Europe leave the zone and rebuild it with Denmark and Sweden as a kind of "dark winter night" economic zone, based on sound principles and weak beer.
Germany's economy is remarkable in many ways, but it was as unbalanced as the euro zone's peripheral economies.
Europe has many world-class companies that sell goods and services across the globe and that are not dependent on the fortunes of peripheral members of the euro zone.
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Signals that the endless fumbling over Greece's second bail-out will end in debt restructuring prompted investor flight from core euro-zone countries as well as peripheral ones.
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But it also means that more trouble in peripheral countries could easily spread to the entire euro-zone economy.
But if you were a depositor in a peripheral country that looked like it needed more money from the euro zone, what would your calculation be?
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The drop in euro-zone inflation will be largely caused by disinflation in the peripheral economies, where fiscal austerity and a credit crunch will squeeze wages and prices.
There is a lot of talk about fiscal discipline within the euro zone, not least because financial markets are punishing Europe's peripheral economies for their profligacy.
Britain may find itself being ordered by a European banking regulator to inject yet more capital into the bank, despite its negligible exposure to Greece and other peripheral countries, because of stress tests designed to shore up the financial system in the euro-zone.
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