Rick Steves' Greece: Athens & the Peloponnese amazon.com
Bust: Greece, the Euro and the Sovereign Debt Crisis - By Matthew Lynn amazon.com
Greece's 'Odious' Debt: The Looting of the Hellenic Republic by the Euro, the Political Elite and the Investment Community - By Jason Manolopoulos amazon.com
Understanding the Crisis in Greece: From Boom to Bust - By Theodore Pelagidis amazon.com
The Imminent Crisis: Greek Debt and the Collapse of the European Monetary Union amazon.com
Eyewitness Greece - Athens and the Mainland - 352 Pages
Financial markets and economic growth in Greece, 1986-1999 [An article from: Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money]
Athens Demographics:
The population count for Athens was 10,964,020 in 2001. According to eurostat, in 2008 Greece had a total estimated population of 11,262,000. Of this, some 695,979 are estimated to be non-Greek.
Perissa Beach on Santorini in Greece. Source: Big Stock Photo
June 10, 2010
Numbers continue to crumble on Greek economy: China may bring in $1 billion in investments
Will Greece slide into economic depression?
David Charter and Robert Lindsay at UK Times Online chronicle the bad news from the Greek government statistical offices:
" The recession in Greece worsened again in the three months to the end of March, official figures showed today.
The country’s economy — currently on life-support after a $146 billion (£100 billion) bailout by the EU and IMF — contracted by 1 per cent compared with the previous quarter.
The decline in the €240 billion (£200 billion) Greek economy compared with the same period last year was recorded at 2.5 per cent, worse than the 2.3 per cent fall predicted by the Greek statistics office.
Industrial output in April showed a year-on-year decline of 5.1 per cent, separate figures from the office revealed.
...Nikos Magginas, an economist at National Bank of Greece, predicted that the fall in industrial output would probably continue “until the end of the year, burdened by doubts on the dynamics of economic recovery in the eurozone and southeaster
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