By Nicholas Pirounakis

The eu Union's weakest economic climate is in quandary. This makes Greece's participation in eu financial Union uncertain and weakens her safeguard opposed to mounting international pressures. She needs to enhance her financial functionality dramatically. The booklet explains why Greece has misplaced floor and covers progress, inflation, public debt, banking, social protection, undefined, housing and tourism. The social and political roots of the concern are pointed out. the line for restoration is printed. Passionately written, it's also a wealthy resource of knowledge on Greece no longer without problems discovered in other places.

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A more disciplined civil service. In the same vein, Alogoskoufis feels that Greece's full membership of the EEC as of 1981 did not help matters because the transfer of substantial funds from the latter to the former veiled for a long time the bad shape of the Greek economy and the need for her thorough restructuring. Although broadly correct, Alogoskoufis' analysis does not emphasise strongly enough the link between most of the factors he cites with underlying features of Greek society, while the lack of a stable currency after 1973 has not been confined to Greece, or been something that Greece could have avoided had she tried.

2). 2 per cent. The gap between net invisible earnings and the trade deficit is of course made good through net capital inflows. which have involved mainly foreign borrowing rather than direct foreign investment (DFI). Moreover. these inflows. as well as their foreign borrowing component. ·' The excess has helped governments finance large budget deficits. or. 9 per cent of GDP in the 1986--95 period. rising from $USI6 to SUS34 billion. 3), one discovers that as of 1986 the biggest items making them up have been tourist receipts and transfers from the European Communities'K - the lauer have actually been the single biggest category since 1989.

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