Sentences with phrase «non-performing loan problem»

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Though Portugal is one of the fastest growing euro zone economies, problems with non-performing loans and high debt among businesses, individuals and government are a big hurdle - mainly at a time when the government's strategy is focused on consumer spending.

Although published figures of non-performing loans (NPLs) are questioned by some analysts, loans designated as «special mention loans» — problem loans — have declined as a percentage of total loans to a little over 3 percent.

Policies that spur more efficient corporate restructuring can revive productivity growth by targeting three inter-related sources of labour productivity weakness: the survival of «zombie» firms (low productivity firms that would typically exit in a competitive market), capital misallocation and stalling technological diffusion... As the zombie firm problem may partly stem from bank forbearance, complementary reforms to insolvency regimes are essential to ensure that a more aggressive policy to resolve non-performing loans is effective.

The debt amounts to around 1 percent of gross domestic product and is a problem for banks that loaned money to oil companies on the basis of the contract price and have yet to be repaid in full, leading to non-performing loans, several senior bank officials said.

During the Financial Crisis, which was triggered principally by problems in the sub-prime home mortgage market, banks saw their non-performing loans sky - rocket.