Demonstrators protested austerity measures Sunday outside the
Greek Parliament in Athens as lawmakers met to pass a budget
that will bring about $9 billion in cuts to benefits and
salaries.  Petros Giannakouris, Associated Press  How to end
Greece's agony    • Article by: THE ECONOMIST   • November 12,
2012 - 5:00 PM  A general strike, protesters on the streets,
parliamentary battles over the austerity measures needed to
unlock rescue funds and a sinking economy with an ever-bigger
debt burden. The situation in Athens last week was grimly
familiar, and not only because Greece has had so many similar
weeks during the past couple of years.  There also are eerie
echoes of the developing-country debt crises of the 1980s and
1990s. The experience of dozens of debt-ridden countries in
Latin America and Africa holds lessons that Greece's rescuers
ought to heed.  For years the International Monetary Fund and
rich-world governments tried to help them with short-term rescue
loans. The most indebted started to recover,