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  1. ELSTAT survey finds 2013 household budgets devastated, inequality persists
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    Society

    . In addition, the average monthly expenditure of poor population (338 euros) is 32.8 percent lower compared to that (1,030 euros) of the non-poor population. Food and housing account for more than half

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  2. A breakdown of Tsipras's pledges on economic strategy in Thessaloniki
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    Economy

    feeding for 300,000 poor families (756 million), free access to the public health care system for all... increased revenues from tax evasion and settlement of unpaid taxes due to a combination of poor past

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  3. Standoff over civil servants in Greece bears hallmarks of pre-election clash
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    or retrained. The coalition passed an amendment over the summer stipulating that a poor performance... to govern. SYRIZA has so far shown itself to be poor at handling such sensitive political issues. While

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  4. Structural problems and dramatic drop in funding harm mental health care in Greece
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    Society

    in the four categories surveyed: environment, opportunities, access and governance. The poor state... than insufficient, understaffed hospital wards is the poor state of community-based facilities

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  5. During crisis, proportion of Greeks in extreme poverty has risen almost seven times to 15 pct
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    Society

    . “Of course, the weak, the unemployed and the poor are not only economically and socially weak... inactive poor,” Dianeosis states.

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  6. S&P raises core Greek banks’ ratings, with a stable outlook

    Economy

    Standard & Poor’s raised on Tuesday evening the four core Greek banks’ ratings to ‘CCC+/C’ from ‘SD,’ with a stable outlook, in the wake of capital controls being relaxed. The ratings agency notes... and operating environment in Greece, high level of non-performing exposures and poor profitability

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  7. The conundrum of Greek olive oil exports
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    EconomyFeatures

    a story of poor management, narrow thinking and a bad strategy which is proving slow to alter. Spain... in the Greek market. The economic crisis did shed light on the poor design of Greece’s current olive

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  8. How Cyprus re-entered the market
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    Agora

    to the international bond markets in late 2010, when Standard & Poor’s (S&P) rating agency downgraded the sovereign... Greece on June 23 to Caa2 (positive outlook) from Caa3. Standard & Poor’s had upgraded Cyprus to B

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  9. S&P upgrades Greece to 'B+' on back of Eurogroup agreement
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    Economy

    authorities have a poor record of attracting direct investment from abroad. Further credit ratings upgrades... second only to Japan in the agency’s ratings universe. Greece’s poor record of policy uncertainty

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  10. Greek elections: Just the (decisive) details to be settled
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    Agora

    four-year term and for the general elections to be held in October. But a poor, or unexpectedly good... the 25-percent mark. But apart from Greek pollsters’ poor track record, there are some caveats that should

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