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Unemployment rate edges down for sixth straight month to 26.8 pct in March
EconomyMacroeconomyinactives) stood at 58.4 percent below the 2013 average of 59.1 percent. The unemployment rate among... 30.8 percent last year. The respective rate among men fell at a faster pace to 23.8 percent from
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IMF report sees a number of risks lying ahead for Greece
EconomyProgrammeThe IMF released on Tuesday its drawn-out report on Greece’s fifth review and expressed concern about “adjustment fatigue” and the rising number of non-performing loans, among other things... is that the funding gap in 2015 (after May 2015) amounting to 12.6 billion euros will be among the key issues
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Greeks living in smaller, older, poorer quality homes during crisis, BoG study shows
Society. This is the highest reading among EU countries in 2012, well above the EU and eurozone average of 43.2... percent in 2008, remaining at the high end among EU countries. The EU average showed smaller increase
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Piraeus Bank reports net profit of 164.3 mln in Q2
EconomyBankingpercent, remaining the highest among its domestic peers. The segmental breakdown showed mortgages NPL... stands at 6.7 percent and is the lowest among its domestic peers. As previously communicated, Central
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Vast majority of Greeks pessimistic on prospects of recovery despite coalition efforts
Society, is a cause for worry among 89 percent of Greeks. The same proportion is also perturbed by rising... percent by this month. Kapa found less of a change, though, in the levels of optimism among
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European Commission sees some progress in Greece's market reforms
EconomyProgrammeenvironment, showed that Greece and Portugal were among the best performers between 2008 and 2013... to Greece jumping 110 ranks to 36th position among 189 countries, according to the World Bank’s Doing
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Greece is least socially just country in EU, report indicates
Societyin the risk of poverty, particularly among children and youth, a health care system badly undermined... The report highlights obvious factors such as the high unemployment rate, including among young
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‘We’re dying to pay our taxes’
Agorathe mood has changed among Greeks five years into austerity. Many Greeks will tell you that they’re... remains the only EU country without a guaranteed minimum income and is among the most sluggish when
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Greece's biggest problem? Society's lack of openness
Agoraapproaches to waste management; in the resistance to the digitization of tax administration among the old... of their misfortunes. A people under such a poisonous spell are readily seduced by those among them who
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Newsletter 1 31/10/2014
economy. While speculation about the failure rate of Greek banks was ripe mainly among non-Greece based.... By most indicators that we currently have this sense of optimism is not the prevailing mood among
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