Interview: Spain to be eurozone's growth engine in 2024, says economist

BARCELONA, Spain, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Spain will continue to be "the engine" of the eurozone in 2024 due to the impact of tourism on the country's economic growth this year, but the long-term future is "more uncertain," Sergi Basco, associate professor of economics at Barcelona University, told Xinhua in an interview on Tuesday.

On the same day, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast that Spain's economy will grow 1.7 percent next year. Last month, the European Commission projected growth to reach 2.2 percent in 2023, three tenths of a point more than its previous estimate in May and over double the forecast for the whole eurozone which stands at 0.8 percent.