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Newsletter 275 -27/11/2020
a ten-year plan for the transformation of the Greek economic model. The report includes radical changes to tax policy, social insurance and the education system in order to move to a more extrovert model.... Aggregate PIB expenditure came to 7.01 billion, overshooting the target by 2.28 billion. Overall, the PIB
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After calm summer, hectic September lies ahead for Greek government
EconomyProgrammein the context of the implementation of the EU target model for the electricity market, ensure that the debt... enterprises, known as DEKOs in Greece. These include, Athens and Thessaloniki Water utilities (EYDAP
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More than half of small businesses saw turnover dive by at least 50 pct due to capital controls
Economyexceeding 70 percent. Overall, nine out of ten companies saw a decline in their revenues with the overall
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The year that Greece (nearly) saw it all
Agorathe eurozone many more. They saw SYRIZA come to power from virtually nowhere a few years earlier
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Newsletter 291 - 02/04/2021
as “a unique opportunity to radically change the Greek economic model, to guide the economy towards a more extrovert, competitive model, with a more effective, digitised state, a growth-friendly tax system... before the pandemic outbreak. Separately, Greece’s economic sentiment (ESI) rose by 5 points month
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Apartment prices rise by 7.5 pct in Q4 and 7.2 pct in 2019
EconomyMacroeconomyapartments, classified as over five years old, saw their prices increase by 6.6 percent in Q4 versus a downward revised increase of 8.1 percent in Q3. Across 2019, old apartments saw an average price increase of 6.9 percent compared to a rise of 1.7 percent in 2018. In 2017, old apartments saw
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Business leaders set out steps to attract skilled Greeks as govt offers wage subsidies
Society, which saw hundreds of thousands of young and qualified Greeks leave the country in search of better... suggestions, SEV notes the need for a systematic measuring and tracking of the brain drain
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Parties debate pandemic response as public approval deteriorates
PoliticsGreek Politicsthose who propagate them. Others, however, saw another opportunity to criticise the government. Tsipras.... However, the coming weeks will be critical in measuring their ability to manage an increasingly
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One unicorn does not a Silicon Valley make: positive news on startup front also highlights limitations
EconomyFeatures. The start of 2022 saw a flurry of positive news stories from Greek technology startups, including.... Measuring the economic contribution of startups is more complicated, and has not been attempted
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Greece - Some structural macroeconomic arithmetic
Agora, as we saw above. With 2 percent inflation, that makes for 2¾ percent nominal growth. If the 60 percent... growth are intuitive, but measuring their size is not easy—they are not directly observable
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