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  1. Growing Greece: From narrative to reality
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    Agora

    in policies that they viewed with scepticism or repulsion in the past. If the economy does not pick up... there is clearly plenty of room for improvement. ND is bringing all of the government’s IT services under one ministry, has plans to create a central portal for government services and is preparing

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  2. A tax credit for Greece: The significance of an independent public revenue service
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    Agora

    collection was in such a bad state, the importance of reforming the revenue service, the role... of creating an independent, or partially independent public revenue service, but never quite

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  3. Is the cost of Greece's public sector soaring again?
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    EconomyFeatures

    to key civil service posts to sabotage the work of the next government. We look at the evidence... that the coalition has been swelling the ranks of the civil service to win votes, the opposition has also... the appointment rules and bolster the civil service hierarchy. Around the same time he made his pledge

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  4. Current account deficit increases to 767.4 mln in Oct as service surplus shrinks
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    in the preceding months. According to the BoG, October’s performance reflects a decline in the services surplus... deficit of 2.05 billion euros on the back of a much-improved oil balance. The services balance came... to offset the precipitous fall in the services balance that is worse off by 13.57 billion euros. The total

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  5. What would a clean bailout exit for Greece mean in numbers?

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    debt to service since the new bonds that were exchanged to avoid the PSI had exactly the same... that Greece is expected to achieve so it can service its debt without accumulating new one. In November 2012... the financing requirement as Greece has to meet the maturity. The figure that is required to repay the ECB

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  6. Alpha Bank reports net profits of 20 mln in Q4, leading full-year earnings to 42 mln
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    EconomyBanking

    remained almost stable QoQ at 97 million. Although, the NPE stock stayed flat at 32.4 billion, the NPE... and reached 1.92 billion in 2016. Fee income stayed almost flat QoQ at 81.2 million. It rebounded by 3... bonds currently stands at just 300 million, while it estimates to fully repay those bonds

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  7. IMF examines where programme went wrong, what lessons were learnt
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    EconomyProgramme

    and the OSI, public debt recorded a relatively modest immediate decrease to 305 billion euros (160 percent... of structural reforms in the labour, product and service markets to remain a viable euro area member

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  8. Terms & conditions
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    recently. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE TERMS & CONDITIONS 1. Description of the services 1.1. We welcome you... of the services that follows before subscribing to the Service. In case they do not agree, they should... to use The Service 2.1. The provision of services by the Company to the users is possible only after

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  9. Greek competitiveness rank remains low as tax, bureaucracy create obstacles
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    EconomyFeatures

    compared to where it lags. Many of the poor scores in the subpillars reflect areas where Greece’s lenders... scores were noted in the subpillars of the effect of taxation on incentives to invest (137 out

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  10. Greece's ultimate sacrifice for stability
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    Agora

    by a political rival suspected of having links to the police and intelligence service? A judicial... or whether their decisions were simply driven by a hardline ideology. It also feeds... policy decisions, were driven by a warped ideology that has no place in a European Union country

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