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Greece's updated proposals to lenders and how they compare to previous efforts
EconomyProgramme60 million in 2015 and 300 million in 2016 from 71 million for 2016 in the previous proposal. 2... (from 600 million previously) 2) Increase in the corporate income tax by 3pp to 29 percent... The third pillar of parametric measures includes two new and three old interventions with a total
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Newsletter 46 - 09/10/2015
to be implemented by 15 October to unlock the first subtranche of 2 billion euros incorporates a first... identified in mid-August. The first set involves a total of eight relevant measures, of which the first sub-set relates to the: 1) adoption of a roadmap for the investment licensing reform, 2) establishment
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ESM takes stock of Greece's sovereign vulnerability
EconomyProgrammeof indicators. The first indicator has the highest weight of 25 percent of the total score... values for the scores, ESM noted that a score of less than 2 corresponds to high vulnerability, between 2 and 2.5 to elevated, between 2.5 and 3 to moderate and a score above 3 means low vulnerability
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Tsipras clears hurdle but isn't over finishing line
Agorapensioners would lose money. The impact of these measures, which amount to 2 percent of GDP in total... reduced from 2.7 percent of GDP to 2 percent) is down to intransigence, indecision, shifting goalposts... of expansionary counter-measures (also worth 2 percent of GDP) to be implemented in 2019 and 2020
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EC sees growth at 1.8 pct for 2019, rising to 2.3 pct in 2020 and fiscal targets in reach
EconomyMacroeconomyon as recovery continues in 2020. On the fiscal front, the EC confirms the total surplus for the fourth... is lower than the 2.2 percent expected in the spring forecasts published in May, compared to a 2... to 2.3 percent, decelerating to 2 percent in 2021. It is worth highlighting that the Greek authorities
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Newsletter 236 -24/01/2020
the crisis. The banks are calling for more than 2 billion euros of state guarantees, otherwise... euros for investments and 2 billion euros for tax relief. The government is searching for over 2... by broadening the tax base, the total abolition of the solidarity levy in 2021 would cost 1.16 billion euros
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We can't ignore population shifts within the European Union
Agorawhether these differences are a cause of population movements in the EU more broadly.[2] In fact... or over 30 percent of the 2020 base. In contrast, the north-west is expected to lose 2 million people...-west regions. The share of the total population concentrating in the north-west regions is expected
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Where is Odysseus? Part 1 - Demographics
Agora.[2] It would be helpful if the Greek government could also present a long-run plan to the public... a level deeper and see how many people out of the total population might be able to work. The first step... population.” Figure 2 shows the comparison of working-age populations (WAP) in the book (2011
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Reflections on Greece's balance of payments
Agorafor the current account and for GDP, so that each measurement reflects an annual total—we track...-investment balance of the government (the public sector). Figure 2 below shows the results... of the government in Figure 2. Financing the current account deficits. When a country runs a current account
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Where are the Conservatives?
Agorameasured 737,000 total employment; in 2022 it was 1.1 million.[2] We can overlap over this interval... (Mitsotakis 1 and 2). 2. The average number of “cabinet” members, sometimes including state secretaries... facilitated keeping jobs to a minimum. [2] The compound growth rate of government employment is 1.4
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