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Greece leads way in cutting spending on healthcare, finds OECD
SocietyGreece made the biggest reduction in its healthcare budget of any OECD country between 2009 and 2011, cutting spending by more than 11 percent, according to a report published on Thursday. The OECD’s... of improving health than spending money once a disease takes root. However, prevention expenditures
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With troika OK pending, 2014 budget sees primary surplus at 1.6 pct of GDP
EconomyMacroeconomyprojections are higher than those incorporated in the 2014 draft budget, which saw a primary... for 2013 will be more than offset on an accrual basis with additional revenues of 1.16 billion
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After Merkel, Samaras faces immediate challenges on domestic front
PoliticsGreek Politicscalled on to pay roughly eight times more in property tax next year than they did in 2009... on foreclosures for homes worth less than 200,000 euros. The latter is a particularly difficult
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Percentage of people in Greece at risk of poverty rises, tops EU list
Society. However, the threat of hardship also affects those with work. More than 27 percent of Greeks... billion next year – a cut of more than 18 percent. When the element of social exclusion is added
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Time running out for coalition to find formula on home foreclosures
PoliticsGreek Politicswith a taxable value of less than 200,000 euros. The temporary measure was introduced to protect households from... ahead of the crisis meant that homes with a taxable value of less than 200,000 euros included
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Building activity in Greece fell by nearly 40 pct in year to September
EconomyMacroeconomypercent in volume. As expected, the bulk of total building activity (more than 90 percent) is related...-performing loan ratio has more than tripled to 24.0 percent at the end of June 2013 from 7.4 percent
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As EU presidency approaches, poll suggests Greeks are most isolated within Union
Society, should highlight in such an emphatic way Greeks’ growing disenchantment with the EU less than two... eurozone member states is weaker than in Greece. The survey also finds interesting differences
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New data shows 6.2 pct of Greek labour force in gray area
EconomyMacroeconomyThree new indicators released on Monday by the Greek statistical authority, ELSTAT, paint an even grimmer picture of Greece's labour market than the one most experts had considered until now... and suggest that the problem is bigger than most analysts had realised until now.
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DIMAR faces struggle to survive in 2014, a year of elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsto enter Parliament and less than half what the 6.2 percent the party won in the June 2012 elections..., however, is deeper than just a disagreement between these two men. A wing of the party known
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Manufacturing PMI reached four-year high of 49.6 pts in December
EconomyMacroeconomyGreek Manufacturing PMI advanced for second straight month in December, reaching its highest level in more than four years as it reached 49.6 points from 49.2 in November, according to Markit... to November, yet the rate of decline in outstanding business was slightly faster than in the previous
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