La economía española

• Main Authors: Matilde Alonso Pérez, Elíes Furió Blasco
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centre de Recherches Ibériques et Ibéro-Américaines 2011-06-01
• Series: Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine
• Subjects: Spanish economy; crisis; real estate; camps; women; childhood
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/ccec/3212

The objective of paper is to analyze the economic situation in Spain, which is currently in the process of moving from a period of growth, into an economic crisis. This recent economic development enabled Spain to make significant advances in terms of personal income. The population increase over recent years, in part thanks to immigration; has translated into an augmentation in the number of households and their requirement for apartments. In addition, good credit conditions favored the expansion of the construction sector. However, these external restrictions on growth and the internal economic bottlenecks, most notably in the construction industry, accompanied by the international crisis, have caused the first Spanish economic crisis of the 21st century.