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.
June 21, 2010
Provopoulos: "Markets need convincing"
Natalie Weeks and Christos Ziotis at Bloomberg reports on European Central Bank finance minster Provopoulos stating the obvious:
"European Central Bank Governing Council member George Provopoulos said it may take some time until the Greek government will convince markets about its consolidation measures.
“I have no doubt that the government will take whatever measures are needed to attain the fiscal objectives to ensure fiscal stability,” Provopoulos said at a conference held by the Onassis Foundation in Athens today. “It will, however, take some time to convince the markets of the government’s determination to achieve those goals. Decades of fiscal mismanagement and faulty fiscal reporting have caused the markets to adopt Saint Thomas’s dictum: to see is to believe.”
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