Greece may have bought itself a bit more time with a third bailout, but its economic troubles are set to continue this year, and possibly even get worse.
We asked 20 economists where they thought Greece was headed. Their answers below make for a depressing read.
1. The great shrinking economy. Gross domestic product will contract 0.7 percent in 2015, compared with a 0.8 percent expansion in 2014, according to the median forecast of economists polled by Bloomberg. That would be the seventh annual decline in eight years. Bear in mind that the $200 billion economy has shed a quarter of its size since entering a recession in 2008.
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