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Posts on August 2014
![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2014/08/28/ndsupporters_myrto_2808-large.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
A factional story: When disunity came to visit New Democracy
In the public relations battle between New Democracy and SYRIZA, which has rumbled on since 2012, the conservatives have consistently targeted what they believe is the leftists’ Achilles’ heel: A lack of unity.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Politics (367), Greece (469)
![Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]](resources/toolip/img-thumb/2014/08/18/zappeio_myrto_1808-large.jpg "Photo by Myrto Papadopoulos [www.myrtopapadopoulos.com]")
The challenge in Greece: Funding an emerging economic recovery
A fragile, uneven and weak recovery is gradually manifesting itself in the real economy of Greece. The recent data published by ELSTAT for the first two quarters of GDP performance in 2014 suggests that Greece is on course to register its first quarterly GDP level in positive territory in the third quarter this year.
Contributor: Jens Bastian
Categories: Economy (314), Greece (469)
The tarnished legacy that will haunt the Athens Olympics
The Olympic Games only come around every four years but for enthusiasts there is at least an annual pastime to keep them busy: Each summer, like clockwork, photographs of disused Athens 2004 venues are published and articles assess those Olympics’ failing legacy.
Contributor: Nick Malkoutzis
Categories: Greece (469)
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The IMF crisis and how to solve it
The IMF is approaching its 70th birthday and the Greek programme has been a candidate for one of the most credibility-sapping in its history. Here I trace the IMF’s role in programme from its stormy launch; its misfiring implementation; the Fund’s half-hearted apology; and ongoing efforts to draw lessons and revise its sovereign debt restructuring framework, which appear destined to deliver insufficient meaningful change. A transparency revolution is both necessary and feasible. It worked for central banks in the 1990s. Why not the Fund?
Contributor: Gabriel Sterne
Categories: Economy (314)
Don't let the facts get in the way of "Argentinology"
It should come as no surprise that in a the country where a large part of the political establishment is comfortable with the notion that some sort of conspiracy drove the country to bankruptcy, the same key players should spend the last few days in a hopeless debate on the recent developments in Argentina.
Contributor: Yiannis Mouzakis
Categories: Politics (367), Economy (314), Greece (469)