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 14, 2010
Karamalis government warned about economy says IMF
Also in the Sunday Kathimerini, it appears that the IMF was already warning the previous Karamanlis government about what was on the verge of happening to the Greek economy:
To say the least: this won't look good in the history books."The IMF expressed concern about Greece’s plummeting competitiveness and its pronounced fiscal imbalances, even though at that stage the true size of Greece’s deficit was not known. The Fund called on the government to take immediate action to rectify the situation and warned that the Greek bond spreads would soar and the country would pay a high cost to borrow on international markets.
Under the premiership of Costas Karamanlis, the conservative administration did not take any remedial steps."
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