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Greece Gets a Dose of McKinsey Management
Markets like the economic plans of Kyriakos Mitsotakis but some of his GDP and foreign investment targets look very optimistic.
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Since the euro crisis earlier this decade, Greece has been the sick man of the monetary union.
Athens has at times been in danger of crashing out of the single currency, despite three rescue programs and the restructuring of its sovereign debt. Last year the economy was still 24% smaller than it was in 2008. For a long time it seemed that the best the euro zone could do was to keep propping up Greece to avoid an even bigger problem.