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When Greece joined the Eurozone in 2001, it was less prosperous than the other members[1], but its GDP grew more rapidly over the next eight years and fell less rapidly in the course of 2009.

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The country's national debt rose by about 25 per cent above its above-average pre-crisis level of 100 per cent of GDP[4].

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Can Greece Avoid the Lion? Kenneth Rogoff

s demonstrated in my recent book with Carmen Reinhart This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly , Greece has been in default roughly one out of every two years since it first gained independence in the nineteenth century.

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2009 2010
2007 2008 2009   Q1    Q2    Q3    Q4    Q1    Q2    Q3    Q4 
GDP (% change on previous period)

Household Debt

(percentage of GDP}
1997 2007
The United States 68 95
The United Kingdom 75 105
The Eurozone 42 60
(Source: approximate transcription from the Turner Report [1])


The growth of financial assets

(Financial assets as a percentage of GDP)
1995 2005
The United States 303 405
The United Kingdom 278 359
The Eurozone 180 303
(Source: Martin Wolf: Fixing Global Finance, page 11, Yale University Press, 2009. )