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Core and periphery still at loggerheads

More signs emerged last week that policymakers in the core economies are unwilling to soften the conditions attached to current or future bail-outs. For now, though, Greece looks set to bow to EC, ECB and IMF demands and implement additional fiscal policy measures, increasing the chances that it will get its next tranche of bail-out loans and avoid a near-term disorderly default.

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