Investing in growth: Europe's next challenge

December 2012| byCharles Roxburgh, Eric Labaye, Fraser Thompson, Tilman Tacke and Duncan Kauffman

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Although the decline in Europe’s level of private investment from 2007 to 2011 is rarely highlighted as a feature of the region’s financial crisis, it was unprecedented. In fact, during that period, private investment in the European Union’s 27 member states (the EU-27) plunged by a combined total of €354 billion—20 and 4 times the fall in private consumption and real GDP, respectively.
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