Talk of economic hardship seems out of place on a sunny April day in Barcelona, one of Spain's most prosperous cities. Yet for all the bustle along the Rambla de Catalunya, the city's main drag, the restaurants and cafes are not as full as you might expect at the start of the Easter break. Jordi Gall, an economist at the nearby Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), gives a decidedly unsunny assessment of the task facing Spain.rnThe country is enduring a painful housing bust that has led to a collapse in the construction industry, doubling the unemployment rate to 18.1% in little more than a year. Recovery seems a distant prospect, not least because during Spain's long boom production costs rose far faster than they did across the euro area as a whole.
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机译：在西班牙最繁华的城市之一的巴塞罗那，阳光明媚的四月天似乎谈不上经济困难。然而，对于加泰罗尼亚主要城市兰布拉大道（Rambla de Catalunya）沿线的所有喧嚣，复活节假期开始之初，餐馆和咖啡厅并不如您预期的那样饱满。附近的庞培法布拉大学（UPF）的经济学家约迪·加尔（Jordi Gall）对西班牙面临的任务做出了绝对不明智的评估。该国正经历着痛苦的房地产泡沫破灭，导致建筑业崩溃，失业率翻了一番，至在不到一年的时间里增长了18.1％。复苏似乎是遥不可及的前景，这尤其是因为在西班牙长期的繁荣景气中，生产成本的增长速度远远快于整个欧元区的生产成本。
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