Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/150058 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Citation: 
[Journal:] Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung [ISSN:] 1861-1559 [Volume:] 84 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Duncker & Humblot [Place:] Berlin [Year:] 2015 [Pages:] 29-45
Publisher: 
Duncker & Humblot, Berlin
Abstract: 
In 2010, the first economic adjustment program began offering a blueprint for economic recovery and a feasible way for Greece to emerge from the crisis. The authors show that Greece neither overcame its structural weaknesses nor developed export industries as a driver of growth in the course of reforms, and they conclude that Greece's sectoral structures still mirror a low level of industrial development as well as a service industry with a below-average growth performance compared to other EU countries. Greece's composition of exports exhibits a limited growth and value-added potential, and is similar to the export patterns of low-income countries due to a focus on raw materials and labor-intensive goods. The analysis also shows that without significant growth, the Greek debt will remain unsustainable. A haircut or a phasing out of the debt burden can only complement supply-oriented structural reforms, however. The reform agenda of August 2015 is a new attempt to implement the reforms that the creditors have been waiting on for the past five years.
Subjects: 
Structural change
foreign trade
unsustainable sovereign debt
structural reforms
JEL: 
F15
F43
H63
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Document Type: 
Article

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