Greek gov't official: Refutes IMF Blog post that called for greater pension reforms and highlighted lack of progress with tax evasion Such difficult decisions cannot be kicked down the road through unrealistic assumptions. While there is much scope for increasing productivity through reforms, the past six years have shown that the scope and pace of reforms acceptable to the Greek society is not commensurate with an early improvement of productivity and sustained high growth. Thus, assuming that Greece can simply grow out of its debt problem without debt reliefby rapidly transitioning from the lowest to the highest productivity growth within the euro zoneis not credible. Similarly, the very limited success in combating Greeces notorious tax evasionto make the well-off pay their fair sharemeans that pension reforms cannot be avoided by simply assuming higher tax collections in the future.