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Newsletter 267 -02/10/2020
expenditure in 2019 amounted to 17,738.64 euros, or 1,478.22 per month, recording an increase of 2.5 percent compared to 2018. Half of households surveyed spent more than 1,151 euro per month. The main... to 2008. Households living in rural areas spend 1,190.96 euros per month, while those living in urban
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Govt mulls tighter controls on movement, seeks to boost health supplies and Covid-19 tests
PoliticsGreek Politics, equating to roughly around 1,500 tests per one million people. The number puts Greece behind Germany, where the last reported figure was over 2,000 tests per million people, but ahead of the United Kingdom, Spain and France with between 500 and 1,000 tests per million people. The Greek testing
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Greece: After a deal, work on a solution
Agoraeconomy. Source: Eurostat, Haver Notes: Q1 2000 = 100. Unit labour costs measure labour costs per unit... capital that could be wasted on another pension reform – with 45 per cent of pensioners already below... amounted to 16.5 per cent of GDP between 2008 and 2013, roughly twice as much as Portugal or Ireland
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Grand projects and even loftier ambitions drive Greece's energy project bonanza
EconomyFeaturesan overall import capacity of 11.3 billion cubic metres per annum (bcm/y) through three entry points... in 2020, it will have an initial capacity to deliver 10 bcm of Caspian gas per year... metres per year. The project passed a technical feasibility study in 2016, and was ratified
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Significant fall in migrant arrivals but camp conditions a growing concern
PoliticsGreek Politicswork force is expected to be able to process around 50 interviews per day by next week and 100 per day... to process around 200 cases per day.” At the moment, the Frontex and EASO numbers are well down on what... are finding it increasingly difficult to induce migrants to cross from Turkey to Greece.” Greece’s concern
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The conundrum of Greek olive oil exports
EconomyFeaturesto the Bank of Greece (BoG), only around 27 percent of the 300,000-plus tonnes which Greece exports per annum... demand for olive oil because the local cost of production is relatively high at 1 euro per kilogram... per cent higher than 2014).” Their report highlights that a more vertically integrated production
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Short-term fix for electricity bills leaves open questions for green transition strategy
SocietySeptember natural gas reached record high prices of over 50 euros per MWh, with some analysts predicting... at an average price of 23.7 euros per tonne, and close to 400 million euros for 15.47 million tonnes in 2020 at 25.6 euros per tonne. Its projections for 2021 totalled 14 million tonnes, of which it reportedly
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Eight in 10 tourist visits to just five regions, six nationalities generate half of receipts
EconomyFeatureseuros, an increase of 8.2 percent. An average of 1.2 regions were visited per trip. However, for long... Australia, Canada and the USA visited an average of 1.9 to 1.7 regions per visit. The expenditure per visit per region came to an average of 449 euros, a fall of 1.8 percent. This varied from region
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Greece tops EU tables for lawyers but also pending administrative court cases
SocietyGreece tops the EU league tables in terms of the number of lawyers per population and has by far... per 100,000 in 2010 to 388 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2014. Also registering a high proportion... 6.4 cases per 100 inhabitants in 2012, compared to 21 in the EU – it was at the upper end
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Productivity developments in the Greek public and private sector
Agoraproductivity to lift per-capita income is important for Greece, then these trends would need to be reversed... periods. If we want to boost real GDP, we have to boost real GVA. Real GVA is available per quarter and per sector, so we can calculate quarterly GVA in real terms for the private and the public sector
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