greece crisis
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Financial crisis of Greece
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• President: Karolos Papoulias (2005)• Prime Minister: George Papandreou (2009)• Population (2009 est.): 10,737,428 (growth rate: 0.1%); birth rate: 9.4/1000; • Monetary unit: Euro
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o Greece, a developed country with a high standard of living and very high Human Development Index;
o A top five tourist destination since at least the 80s
o Greece had shifted to the Euro in 2001.
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• Economic summary:
GDP (2009est.): $341 billion per capita $32,100 Real growth rate: 4%. Inflation (2009 est.) : 1.2% Unemployment (2009 est.) : 9 % Exports: $25.76 billion Imports: $79.92 billion
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•Greece crisis
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Debt Crisis of Greece
Greek government funding crisis
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Greece has a 12.7% deficit of its GDP.
National debt has exceeded 300 billion Euros.
Greece has US$ 25 billion dollar of its debt that must be immediately re-financed
1. Debt crisis
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• The Greek government requested that the EU/IMF bailout package (made of relatively high-interest loans) be activated.
• The Euro zone legally requires that national deficit be within a 3% limit if GDP.
• With Greece’s deficit of 12.7% of the GDP, the European Central Bank is legally not allowed to engineer a typical bail-out, partly due to political aspects of the EU treaty.
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• The size of the bailout is expected to be €45 billion ($61 billion) and it is expected to take three weeks to negotiate
• With a payout within weeks of €8.5 billion of Greek bonds becoming due for repayment.
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• Fitch ratings has called Greece as “Eurozone’s weakest member”
• Greece’s debt is 113%of its GDP.
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• Greek Government Funding Crisis:
• The Greek economy was one of the fastest growing in the euro zone during the 2000s
• From 2000 to 2007 it grew at an annual rate of 4.2%
• Estimated tax evasion costs the Greek government over $20 billion per year.
• Investors placed about €20bn ($28bn, £17bn) in orders for the five-year, fixed-rate bond
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• Greek crisis hurts EU reputation
• A default by one member of the 27 participants in the Euro-zone will lead to the collapse of the Euro
• Countries of the European Union are allocating 20 to 25 billion Euros to Greece as a rescue package to help it get over the financial crisis
• Expectations of a weaker Euro, dollar becomes stronger relative the Euro
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• Greece must change or sink!
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• Real estate industry
• Greek political parties
• Systemic corruption and “clientelism
• Tax inspectorate
• Health sector
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