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How Samaras backed himself and Greece into a corner over bailout exit
Agoraless than SYRIZA. Together with PASOK, Samaras’s party had a bigger share of the vote than... of a government on the run. In less than five months, the coalition has backed itself and the country... for a no-holds-barred political battle rather than paving the way for a reform-driven turnaround
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Greece holds back spending, rakes in one-off revenues for 2.1 bln primary surplus at end of April
EconomyGreece’s budget execution showed the 4-month primary surplus more than doubled year on year (YoY... budget bulletin published on Monday. The reading is 60 million euros lower than the preliminary figure... target by 2.41 billion, which is significantly better than the over-performance of 1.6 billion
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Income inequality in Greece has grown during crisis, OECD report shows
Societyyears, with the top tenth of society earning 12.3 times more than the poorest in 2012, up from 10.5... concentrated at the top than income, exacerbating the overall disadvantage of low-income households. In 2012.... This group fared considerably worse than the median and the top 10 percent. The impact
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Revenue uptick unable to stop 7-mth primary surplus outperformance falling to 724 mln
EconomyMacroeconomyInvestment Budget (PIB) balance (by 1.53 billion) and lower tax refunds (by more than 300 million) more than..., and landed at 840 million, 535 million better than target. Revenues The final budget figures showed... was due to be paid by the end of July, whilst this year less than half of taxpayers were due to pay
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Greek teachers low paid, but work shorter hours in smaller classes
Societytheir careers, rising to €25,752 at the end of service. In Greece, the report underlined, less than 5... teachers also spent much less time teaching than many of their peers. While public primary school... per day, on average, compared to more than five hours in Chile, Colombia and Latvia. The report noted
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Underspend and improving revenues lead to budget primary surplus of 2.67 bln in Q1
EconomyMacroeconomy, which was 940 million higher than last year’s figure of 1.73 billion, according to the Finance... to an underspend. Primary expenditure was 1.34 billion lower than the target. Also, revenues over-performed (by 363 million). These two factors more than made up for the lower-than-expected PIB balance
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Newsletter 78 - 17/06/2016
on the evolution of the Greek banks’ non-performing exposure (NPE) ratio, which increased by more than 4... period showed a primary surplus of 2.27 billion, up by more than 50 percent from last year... of the latest bailout tranche should bring. However, it is not likely to be anything more than a brief
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Newsletter 86 - 26/08/2016
) than those for older houses, which fell by 0.5 percent QoQ and 2.3 percent YoY. Prices of new apartments decreased at a faster pace than those for older houses. Bailout loans at highest levels Greece’s..., the most marked rise was in marriages of more than 10 years, where divorces increased from 8,334
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Revenues spring surprise by beating Sep target, providing 1.4 bln cushion for Q4
EconomyMacroeconomyto September. Meanwhile, tax refunds were 31 million lower than the September target, but the 9-month... at 34.83 billion, 1.06 billion better than target. As we have previously noted, September was one... of the corporate income tax. We understand that higher than targeted revenues in September could
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Newsletter 100 - 16/12/2016
the completion of the review seem more complicated than ever. The first shock to the system this week... on hold the implementation of In July the number of tax debtors increased by more than 125,000 from... of the current administration being able to pass more than 4 billion euros of new measures right now
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