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.
August 9, 2010
"Pessimism in Greece in misplaced " - Paul Thomsen
More weighted positives from International Monetary Fund Greek mission chief Paul Thomsen, from article by Nick Skrekas at the Wall Street Journal:
"...Poul Thomsen, said Friday that the debt-laden country will pull through and gain the trust of markets again as long as its resolve to implement reforms doesn't waver.
On Thursday at a joint press conference in Athens the IMF, the European Central Bank and the European Commission said that Greece had made impressive progress and implied that the second EUR9 billion tranche of the three-year, EUR110 billion bailout program will be paid in September.
"The pessimism in Greece in misplaced because by 2012 the country will have a primary surplus and a deregulated economy with viable social systems. But the caveat is that the program is implemented properly," Thomsen told Dow Jones Newswires in an exclusive interview.
..."The basic strategy of the program is to take Greece out of the market for two years and allow Greece to create a track record and that is why we are putting in so much money in. Confidence will only improve if the program is executed properly," said Thomsen.
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