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Department of Business

and Industrial
Management, Surat

Presentation on
Greece, its international creditors and euro
From Economic & Political Weekly 14 th Feb.
2015 issue no.7 vol. 50

Greece, its international creditors


and euro

Stay
Stayinin
power
euro
Reverse
austerity

25th January 2015 SYRIZA won greek


election (coalition of Radical left and
Anel party)
Alexis Tsipras Prime Minister
Yanis Varoufakis (economist)
Finance Minister

Origins of Greeces
Problems
Maastricht treaty (treaty that
established the euro zone) in 1992
Greece entered in Jan 2001
From 2001-2007 avg. GDP of
Greece : 4.3%
Euro zone avg. GDP : 3.1%

Monetary expansion in
the advanced capitalist
countries (US, UK,
Germany, France) of the
centre.
private capital started to
flow from the centre to
the periphery which
includes Greece

GREECE

US
UK
GERMANY
FRANCE

Good GDP

Easy Credit

private
consumption
and
government
spending

Trouble

Non
productive
spending

Athens
Olympics in
2004

Military
spending

Global
Financial
Crisis in
June 2007
private
capital flow
surge
reversed

Beginning until 2009 the Greek


governments had been masking their
sovereign debt and budget deficit
through creative accounting and off
balance sheet transactions as well as
complex currency and credit
derivatives.
Papandreou government which was
elected in October 2009 stopped this and
released the true numbers.

Greece has been in depression since


2009
GDP down about 25%
Youth unemployment is above 50%
Public debt to GDP ratio 175%

Bailed
out

Leave
the euro
zone

EC : European commission
(executive body of European
union)
ECB : the European Central
Bank
IMF : international monetary
fund
Euro group : conference of
FM of 19 member state (euro
zone) for discussion of
matter related to EURO

EC
B

EC
IM
F

troika

Euro Group

European
financial
stability
Facility (EFSF)

European
Stability
Mechanism
(ESM)

EFSF : Its a private company


established in 2010, a special purpose
vehicle created as a temporary crisis
resolution mechanism.
ESM : Permanent rescue mechanism
with same mission established in 2012.
Unlike GFL ,EFSF & ESM funds its
operations by issuing money market as
well as medium & long term debt.

Macroeconomic Adjustment Programmes


: Bailed outs package of 2010
Europ
grou
3
77.
n
Billio

IMF
30
Billion

Greek
Loan
facility
(GFL)
from may
2010 to
June 2013

Bailed out package of march


2012
Europ
grou
.7
144 n
Billio

IMF
19.8
Billion

MAP
164.5 Billion
from 2012 to
end 2014

MAPs were imposed & overseen by troika


which consists of
Fiscal reforms to generate Savings (austerity)
Structural reforms to enhance competitiveness
& growth
Financial reforms to enhance financial stability
Here European Central Bank (ECB) does not
provide financial assistance in bailed out but it
only provides technical expertise

Beneficiaries of Bailed outs


1. Greeces Private Lenders
2. German & French banks
. Here Varoufakis appears right when
he claimed that it was the banks
that got bailed out, not Greece
& that Greece got deformed, not
reformed

Main objectives of SYRIZA


government
1.
2.
3.
4.

Write off 50% of sovereign debts


Reverse austerity
Reverse structural reforms
Remain euro zone members

. since then PM and FM are working


on it

But still the question


remains!

Stay
Stayinin
power
euro
Reverse
austerity

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