In fact the likelihood must be that a much greater risk lies in committing the country prematurely to a struggling monetary regime whose prospects are uncertain.
Indeed, the International Monetary Fund says prospects have become slightly worse – at the start of the year it was expecting global growth of 3.4% this year but its latest forecasts say 3.2%, little better than the 3.1% of 2015.
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"Prospects for Monetary Integration in Southern Africa," slides Stellenbosch University, Jan.18, 2007.
"Capital flows had been sensitive to diverging prospects for monetary policy around the world and there was a risk of further volatility in capital flows as that policy divergence progressed.
The relative treatment of the public and private sectors will obviously affect the costs and benefits of privatization, the government's incentives to privatize, and injured parties' prospects for monetary recovery.
These predate the global financial crisis: between 2003 and 2007, when some investors were already beginning to doubt the sustainability of the boom in property and share markets (as well as the wisdom of monetary policy and the prospects for global growth), the price more than doubled.
Europe needs a stronger banking union, including a cross-Continental guarantor of deposits; structural reforms to improve growth prospects; more monetary easing; and better plans for budget-cutting in the countries struggling to convince global investors of their financial stability, the fund said.
José Manuel González-Páramo, who has been nominated as Spain's representative to the 18-member policy-setting council of the European Central Bank, told the European Parliament on Tuesday that with interest rates at current levels, "you cannot say at the present situation that monetary policy is harming" prospects for growth.
Although the nation has narrowly averted bankruptcy with the help of the biggest bailout in global history – €240bn (£203bn) in rescue funds from the European Union and International Monetary Fund since May 2010 – prospects of the country returning to capital markets any time soon remain far from assured.
The divergence between domestic and foreign economic growth prospects and monetary policies was cited as presenting a downside risk because of the potential for further strengthening of the U.S. dollar; some participants noted that financial stresses in a few EMEs could pose additional risks if they were to spread more broadly through the global economy and financial markets.
