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Job departures at 37,667 in Nov, 11-month net hirings highest since 2001
EconomyMacroeconomy. The breakdown displayed hirings stood at 157,385 in November and were more than offset by 195,052... employment balance still remains positive, with net hirings of 125,128, up by more than 36 percent... to layoffs. The majority (more than 54 percent) of the 11-month hirings involved flexible types of work
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Eurosystem funding drops by 3.3 bln in Nov for 17th straight monthly fall
EconomyMacroeconomy. Overall, Eurosystem funding has been cut by more than 58 billion in the last seventeen months, also... than that in mid-August 2015. Following the higher decline in ECB compared to ELA funding... by more than 7.5 billion since their peak of 50.48 billion in July 2015. However, they still stand
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Greece below EU average in social protection, with pensioners getting lion's share
SocietyGreece spends proportionately less of its GDP on social protection than the EU average but gives more of a share of what it spends to pensioners than any other EU country, newly released data from... spending per capita was registered in Romania at more than 70 percent below the EU average, followed
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Why can't Greece be more like Cyprus?
Agoraneeded to bailout the eurozone countries, with Athens taking up almost 250 billion euros (more than... with them than about what the future holds. Surveying the current lay of the land, one sees... for a better balance over the years but we’ve arrived at a point now where more than 80 percent of public
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Newsletter 101 - 23/12/2016
(albeit one that has much clearer conditions than the current one), but it does not make any... collected than last year. In addition, the comparable expenditure (stripping out the repayment... percent, respectively. However, this positive performance was more than offset by a decline
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Time deposit rate falls to record low of 0.71 pct, loan rate drops to 4.83 pct
EconomyMacroeconomy. It currently stands 27 bps higher than the eurozone average rate of 0.44 percent. The recorded decrease... stand more than 250 bps above the euro area average rates. In the household lending sector... a recent peak at 5.01 percent in the previous month. The decline in the average loan rate more than
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December retail sales seen down 2.5 pct amid tax onrush
EconomyMacroeconomyin December, more than 100 million lower than the 4.1 billion recorded a year ago. ESEE highlights... seen nominal GDP contracting by more than 26 percent over this period. The most recent data on private
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Cat and mouse: Greece and Schaeuble
Agorahad in mind something completely different than the Greek government. When all the pieces are put... the IMF is demanding (legislation of more than 2 percent of GDP in contingency measures that include... would approve a new deal. Rather than suggesting that Greece’s problems would be over if the IMF
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An unfounded argument leaves Greece in limbo
Agorawith its eurozone lenders add up to a primary surplus of no more than 1.5 percent of GDP in 2018... primary surpluses than proposed for Greece.” However, looking at the European Commission’s macroeconomic... to be the most critical of Greece are not expected to run primary surpluses of more than 1 percent
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Overdue contributions rise at accelerating pace of 615 mln in Q4, stock climbs to 17.54 bln
EconomyMacroeconomy, to 314,917 at the end of December. The breakdown displays 40.4 percent of debtors owe less than... side of the spectrum, 1,159 debtors (just 0.4 percent of total) owe more than 1 million each... billion (slightly less than a quarter of total) and involves 60,889 debtors accounting for 19.3
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