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Christopher Pissarides

Stephen Sackur talks to Christopher Pissarides, an economist who chairs Cyprus's new national council of economic advisers. Do Cypriots have anyone to blame but themselves?

Cyprus has become Europe's zombie economy; the life sucked out of it by a banking collapse and a rescue package which will inflict a generation of economic pain. Christopher Pissarides has watched the horror unfold. He is a Nobel prize winning economist who chairs Cyprus's new national council of economic advisers. Do Cypriots have anyone to blame but themselves?

30 minutes

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Wed 3 Apr 2013 20:30GMT

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