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Two centuries of Greek debt emergencies highlight the traps of depending on outside financing. Since its autonomy in 1829, the Greek government has defaulted four times on its outside creditors, and it was safeguarded in every crisis. Firstly, this chapter demonstrates that cycles of outside crises and reliance are a perpetual topic of Greek present-day history—with rehashing designs: before the default , there is a time of substantial acquiring from remote private loan bosses. Secondly, it analyzes the period from 2008 in more detail to present and the role that the banks play in four times defaults. As reimbursement challenges emerge, foreign governments venture in, help to reimburse the private leasers, and request spending cuts and alteration programs as a condition for the authority bailout advances. Political obstruction from abroad mounts and a drawn out scene of obligation shade and monetary autarky takes after. At present, there is considerable evidence to suggest that a substantial haircut on external debt is needed to restore the economic viability of the country. Even with that, a policy priority for Greece is to reorient, to the extent possible, toward domestic sources of funding.
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Garefalakis, A., Lemonakis, C., Alexopoulos, G., Tabouratzi, E. (2017). History of Greece’s Debt Crisis and the Banking Policy . In: Floros, C., Chatziantoniou, I. (eds) The Greek Debt Crisis. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59102-5_7
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