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  1. Greek debt: A case of learned helplessness?
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    Agora

    to overlook opportunities for relief or change. Over the last year, the Greek public has been... percent of GDP given that roughly a quarter of the economy has evaporated over the last five years... has a further grievance in that the ECB offered private creditors who owned Greek bonds

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  2. Growth, recovery, change and other words lost in the wind
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    Agora

    , competitiveness, adjustment and relief has plummeted. At home, Greek politicians have shown that they can keep up... of the words whose meaning has been undermined. They are spoken by people who have no intention... on Tuesday. Hardouvelis – a man of numbers who has only been in government for a few months

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  3. Managing an orderly Greek exit from the memorandum
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    Agora

    conditions set by the ECB in Frankfurt. The ECB has drawn attention to the fact that Greek banks cannot... three notches below this critical ECB threshold. Furthermore, ECB president Mario Draghi has... Greece has an agreed economic monitoring programme beyond the adjustment process foreseen

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  4. Greece said to eye exit plan with precautionary support but no new MoU
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    EconomyProgramme

    its bailout program has led the government to change its plans, according to local media reports. Since early September, the 10-year Greek government bond yield has jumped from around 5.5 percent... percent in the last 4 weeks. According to reports, this has prompted the government to consider a new

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  5. Cairo Declaration inches Greece closer to hydrocarbons goal

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    in Greece has fallen on what the pact might mean for Greece’s hopes of demarcating its Exclusive Economic Zone. Cyprus has already marked out its maritime zone after agreements with surrounding countries... for hydrocarbon reserves, as Cyprus is doing currently. The coalition has consistently stressed

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  6. The politics of debt dynamics in Greece
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    Agora

    rise in Greece’s debt ratio has been the dramatic fall in nominal GDP, i.e. the euro value... with the troika includes a provision according to which the country’s debt mountain has to be reduced to 124 percent of GDP by 2020. Greece has a moratorium on the interest payments on this debt for 10

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  7. Troika and Greece in stalemate over budget targets, prior actions as time ticks away
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    EconomyProgramme

    the troika’s approval as has happened for the last two years. The fiscal gap for the next year is one... an additional revenue shortfall next year. However, today’s press reports indicate that the troika has lowered... as of October 1, the troika has reportedly also asked for a reduction in the number of installments to 72

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  8. ILO highlights social impact of Greek crisis, proposes change in policy
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    Society

    outlining the impact that the lengthy recession and adjustment programme has had. In addition, the ILO... as 60 percent of the median equivalent household income. This share has risen from 20.1 percent... (based on the poverty line fixed in 2008) showed that poverty in Greece has more than doubled

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  9. A little more persuasion, a little less reaction
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    Agora

    the eurozone – even though SYRIZA has long abandoned its flirtation with the idea of going back... has used the comments from abroad about the potential dangers ahead or preferences for which side... about the prospect of SYRIZA coming along and breaking up their cosiness, which has been assisted

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  10. Samaras strays out of line in search for new normal
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    Agora

    Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has a habit of defending his government by saying that his aim... at which its GDP is growing or how much foreign direct investment it has received cannot be his only... in another European capital suggest that the Greek leader has no comprehension of the factors that need

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