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Constatação do Economist de há dias: «[...] To improve its performance, Portugal needs more flexible labour laws, less bureaucracy, a better educated workforce, more competition and a smaller state. As the IMF states in a recent report, the country’s fundamental problems are domestic, not global, in nature. But political leaders find reforms hard to push through. [...]» (The Economist, 30 de Abril de 2009).