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Business landscape dominated by SMEs, six in 10 workers earn below 1,200 euros
EconomyMacroeconomyof companies employing between 1-10 employees, with 267,245 companies out of a total of 304,568 registered companies in 2025. The total number of companies increased in 2025 by 3,454. Another 10.4 pct... 15 pct of the total. Another 11 pct of total employees is employed by firms with 5-9 workers. Some
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Greek tax revenues at 33.5 pct of GDP in 2013, slightly below OECD average
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s total tax revenues as a percentage of GDP remained virtually unchanged at 33.5 percent.... In absolute terms, personal income taxes made up 20.6 percent of total taxation below the OECD average... percent in 2012 at almost one third of the OECD average of 2.9 percent. As a percentage of total
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Where did all the money go?
AgoraThe total amount of loans the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund supplied to Greece... total stands at 31.9 billions (18 percent of GDP). These are staggering figures: No other nation has..., provided a total of 24 billion euros of own financing. There seems to be a general misconception
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General government cash surplus widens to 3.68 bln in November, arrears down by 502 mln
EconomyMacroeconomybudget surplus at 1.83 billion, corresponding to almost half of total. Last year state budget had posted... in arrears to SSF and hospitals by 423 million in total. In particular, SSF arrears fell by 273 million MoM to 2.26 billion corresponding to almost half of total arrears. The second highest MoM
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Greece stands on fault line between vicious and virtuous cycles for 2016
Agorainterest bill is below 6 billion. In total, Greece needs 13.2 billion euros to meet all its debt... the largest IMF installment of the year at 876 million, which leads to a total figure of IMF obligations.... The total figure for the first two months of the year is approximately 1.7 billion euros. March
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Unpaid social security contributions hit 15.35 bln at end of 2015
Economy1 billion. From the total overdue contributions of 15.35 billion euros at the end of 2015, 11.31... and 30,000 euros each for a total amount of 1.26 billion. On the other side of the spectrum, just 1,028..., corresponding to more than a fifth of total debt. The largest debt bracket involves those owing between 50
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Greek pensions: The unsolvable equation
Agorato slip further in 2015. Total wages that exceeded 33 billion euros in 2009, dropped to 22 billion... to the general government monthly bulletin, in 2015 pension funds had a total of 35.3 billion in revenues.... That takes the total 2015 figure of pension dependency on state funding to 17.9 billion euros
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A closer look at the composition of Greece's bad loans
EconomyBankingtotal performing exposures remained unchanged at 12.6 percent. From the total NPE stock of 108..., from a total of 9.37 million, relate to NPEs. This number is extremely high, taking into account... coverage ratio stood at relatively low levels at 50 percent of total exposures. In specific, the ratio
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General gov't primary cash surplus up to 5 bln in 2016, arrears fall by 1.1 bln in Dec
EconomyMacroeconomyof total expenditure with compensation following suit at 15.78 billion accounting for almost 20 percent of the total figure. Arrears Arrears to the private sector (including tax refund arrears) posted... percent of the total figure. Tax refund arrears of 1.23 billion follow suit with their share at 27
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General govt primary cash surplus falls to 2.6 bln in 2-month, arrears up for second month
EconomyMacroeconomyby compensation of 2.55 billion (22.8 percent of the total figure). Arrears Arrears to the private sector... percent of total with tax refunds following at 1.26 billion (one quarter of total). In addition, hospital arrears amounted to 574 million accounting for 11.4 percent of the total figure. It is noted
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