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Stock taking: Where is the Greek economy now?
AgoraCovid-19, and the unemployment rate has been kept artificially down by various support schemes. These are unviable in the long run because of the costs involved. If we compute the unemployment rate at a maintained higher participation rate as in the past, then the data suggest to us that the underlying
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Unemployment falls below 14 pct for first time since Oct 2010
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s seasonally adjusted (SA) unemployment rate dropped to 13.9 percent in August, from.... This is the first time the unemployment rate in Greece has fallen below 14 percent since October 2010 and the lowest figure since. In the same month last year, the unemployment rate was 16.9 percent
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Minister stresses limits on hospital resources as Covid rates continue to rise
PoliticsGreek Politicsruled out, attention is focussing on boosting the lagging vaccination rate and the possible reintroduction of mask mandates. On Thursday, there were 3,407 cases reported with a positivity rate... increasing at a rate of 4 pct while total hospital admissions rose by 30 pct over the past two weeks
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Newsletter 321 - 17/12/2021
treated outside of ICUs. The mortality rate for those who were not provided with intensive care was 88.4 pct, while for those who were brought into ICUs, the rate was 62.2 pct. This finding... by claiming that there were no indications of a higher death rate among patients not receiving
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Where is Odysseus? Part 2 - Uncertainty
Agoraif the fertility rate, instead of slightly improving as assumed in the baseline, were to stay low... of fertility rate on long-run population projections is big. We will touch below on the global discussion..., fertility rates started falling as well. Then, fertility rates dropped below the replacement rate
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Newsletter 357 - 04/11/2022
as firms cut staff. The only silver lining is the slow rate at which jobs are being shed. Although... May 2020. Unemployment After a pause in August, the unemployment rate in September dropped below 12 pct, to 11.8 pct, the lowest rate since 2010, before Greece signed the first adjustment programme
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Tracking Greece's fiscal performance
Agorais complicated by the emergence of high inflation, and by large interest rate subsidies that Greece... the Covid-19 episode, but, hopefully, it will not continue for too long. The interest rate subsidies...) fixed interest rate. We can also see that as Greece adopted the euro, its real interest rates
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Newsletter 366 - 20/01/2023
euros of new issues, or 8 billion if a green bond materialises later in the year. However, the rate... with the higher cost of money, the effects of the ECB’s policy rate hikes is being felt across... at 4.74 pct. The weighted average interest rate for new loans to individuals and non-profit institutions
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Newsletter 487 - 05/12/2025
in unemployment likewise appears to be slowing. The rate is expected to fall to 8.6% in 2026, from 9.1... YoY and 1.3 pct from the previous quarter. Unemployment Greece’s unemployment rate was broadly..., leading to the lowest unemployment rate since the end of 2008. The number of employed people increased
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Coalition suffers space agency misfire
PoliticsGreek Politicsscientist Stamatios Krimigis had stepped down from his position at the head of the newly
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