With the Eurozone expected to shrink a further 0.1% this year, after contracting 0.6% in 2012, European policymakers will have to work to achieve more symmetrical adjustment shared between core externalsurplus members, namely Germany, and peripheral deficit countries, Kraemer argues.
Guillermo Perry, the World Bank's chief economist for Latin America, says Chile is better placed than any other country in the region to absorb external shocks, thanks to its well organised budgetary institutions, prudent fiscal management (a surplus every year since 1989) and tight banking supervision.