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The Content of Growth: A dialogue with Daniel Gros

Discussion on the prespectives of growth in Greece

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In mid July KAS Athens and IOBE hosted a discussion on the perspectives of growth in Greece. The guest speakers were Daniel Gros, Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, Aristos Doxiadis, Venture Capitalist and Co-Founder of the Open Fund and Gikas Hardouvelis, Chief Economist of Eurobank and Professor of the University of Piraeus.

During the discussion there was a controversy between the speakers about the origins of the Greek crisis. A cetral point of the discussion was the potential growth of the Greek exports; the Greek experts considered the credit crunch responsible for the poor performance of Greek exports. For Gros is the increase of exports the prerequisite for the recovery of the Greek economy. For this purpose Greece has to improve its governance-structures and its institutions. Gros argued that the Greek banks should have been sold at an earlier stage so as to prevent the situation the Greek banks reached today. Aristos Doxiadis and Gikas Hardouvelis contradicted this evaluation.

An active audience that consisted of distinguished professionals, students and other followers of the debate participated lively in the fruitful discussion that followed.

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Bildmarke Content of Growth KAS Athen

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