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Newsletter 231 -06/12/2019
reaching an agreement with Libya last week to delineate maritime borders in the Mediterranean. Athens has labelled the deal “illegal,” arguing that Libya’s prime minister does not have the legal... after a revised increase of 1.3 percent in Q2, provisional estimates from the Hellenic Statistical
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Where is Odysseus? Part 5 - Productivity
Agoraare disappointing. Real GDP per employee in Greece is growing less quickly than in Odysseus’ Plan of 2018... efficient are the workers in a country to produce real GDP? After all, productivity determines per-capita... calculate the path for real GDP per person employed. That is average labor productivity. Figure 3 presents
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Where is Odysseus? Part 6 - Potential real GDP
Agoraand bigger recovery of Greece. In blog 20, however, we documented a glitch, because productivity per... for average productivity per employed person, also with a high and low scenario alongside the baseline... with the average expected productivity per employed person, to build a baseline scenario for long-run real GDP
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Ankara tension tops govt agenda, overshadowing social dividend and primary residences
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe spat with Turkey over its signing of an agreement with Libya regarding the delimitation... is in control of all of Libya, and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reportedly told Turkish President... with disabled children under the age of 24. The total outlay is estimated at 175 mln euros “The one-off
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Enhanced support package on way to combat inflation, as govt awaits crucial nod from EU
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor households translates into 39 euros per KWh for electricity and 20 euros per thermal KWh for natural gas. Industry sources, however, estimate that wholesale cost rises this month will leave consumers around 35 euros per KWh out of pocket even after the government support. Government sources
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Q2 GDP rebounds 0.2 pct QoQ but shrinks 0.9 pct YoY amid consumption drop and investment rise
EconomyMacroeconomyof the flash estimate. The provisional estimates also showed that GDP contracted at a slightly slower pace... to 14.55 billion, also reflecting a slight rebound in the average expenditure per trip, which, however... and by 0.2 percent in Q4 for the full-year estimate of a 0.3 percent contraction, projected by most
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Don't let the facts get in the way of "Argentinology"
Agorashots and ignorant remarks that further exposed the low calibre some of those who participated... the figure of 2000. By July 2002, the peso had collapsed to 26 cents per peso from parity just a few
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Medics highlight weaknesses in frontline care as parties debate emergency measures
PoliticsGreek Politicscapacity, which currently stands at half the European average per head of population. Speaking... access to protective equipment, and more Covid-19 testing. Tsipras sought to limit his remarks
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Running the wrong way: Rama's spat with the EU over vaccination underlines growing frustration
Agorawith non-Member States” such as Western Balkans, in spite of remarks that the pandemic crisis can only... an explanation that his criticism was not directed to France per se, but rather to the general exclusion
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Govt searches budget for space to adopt more Covid and energy relief
PoliticsGreek Politicson January 3. As of Thursday, restaurants and bars can only seat six people per table, no standing... published on Thursday, in which it referred to Patelis’s remarks as “unfortunate”, and “fake”.
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