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Lowest income groups in Greece saw wages drop and taxes rise most during crisis
SocietyLower income groups in Greece saw their tax burden increase by 337.7 percent from 2008 to 2012... percent from 2008 to 2012, the bottom three income groups saw their earnings from wages sink the most...) was in the 5th decile while those at the top saw their wage income fall by 9.3 percent. It also finds
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Newsletter 218 -06/09/2019
as prime minister this weekend, when he plans to set out the government’s plans for another round of tax... the message that Greece is open for business. head to the Thessaloniki Expo on Saturday to set out his... a downward revised rise of 1.1 percent in Q1, provisional estimates from the Hellenic Statistical
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For better or worse: Greece's bailout exit deja vu
Agorato 2060 set by Greece’s lenders has not been achieved by anyone before and needs to be reconsidered... tax rates and investment spending if targets were beaten. All crisis governments had first-hand... a fiscal gap of 1.1 percent of GDP, or 2 billion euros. This meant that if Samaras wanted to close
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Newsletter 47 - 16/10/2015
in the statutory retirement age, failed to prompt an outcry among SYRIZA and Friday's vote will likely set.... New Democracy’s approach will likely set the pattern for Greek politics over the next few months... a rebound in final consumption (+1.1 percent), falling imports (-4.9 percent) and almost stable exports
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Newsletter 86 - 26/08/2016
to 524,500. Meanwhile the average working month slipped 1.1 percent to 21.59 days in 2015, while... highlighted the need for Greek authorities to “set the record straight and avoid misinterpretation... year, more than 1.1 million Greeks were living in low-work intensity homes, where working-age
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SYRIZA seeks to bolster post-MoU narrative with early IMF repayment
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament elections, the prime minister argued that his party has fulfilled the goals it had set... shows a middle class household saw its annual income decrease by 5,258 euros between 2011 and 2014... in Mandra and the fatal wildfire in Mati – and that she will overcome this criticism to win the vote
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ND prepares first three bills for votes before Parliament's summer recess
PoliticsGreek Politics’s 158 MPs would vote, but what policy agenda the centre-right party would set out over the three-day debate. The government is set to bring three bills to Parliament by August 10, when the House... is also set to contain a provision for the scrapping of the so-called university "asylum" law, which
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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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Greece saw first annual deflation in almost half a century in 2013
EconomyMacroeconomyin the next two years at 0.6 percent in 2015 and 1.1 percent in 2016, also reflecting a stronger GDP
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