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It's the hope that kills you
Agorareporting close to 250 per day and already had 21 coronavirus-linked deaths. Greece rode a wave... of sample testing per flight based on certain risk criteria per country of origin. Even..., 3,442 tests were conducted on average daily, with the average rising to 4,692 tests per day in June
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Bulgaria's Covid-19 vaccination fiasco: excessive risks, mediocre results
Agoraof the price of the EU’s and Bulgaria’s vaccine portfolios. If EU’s portfolio cost about 11 EUR per dose, Bulgaria’s would be 9 EUR per dose. I guess the “savings” of 2 EUR per dose (18%) is indicative... date, Bulgaria was the 2nd country in the EU by new confirmed deaths per million people on a rolling
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Where is Odysseus? Part 5 - Productivity
Agoraare disappointing. Real GDP per employee in Greece is growing less quickly than in Odysseus’ Plan of 2018... efficient are the workers in a country to produce real GDP? After all, productivity determines per-capita... calculate the path for real GDP per person employed. That is average labor productivity. Figure 3 presents
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Where is Odysseus? Part 6 - Potential real GDP
Agoraand bigger recovery of Greece. In blog 20, however, we documented a glitch, because productivity per... for average productivity per employed person, also with a high and low scenario alongside the baseline... with the average expected productivity per employed person, to build a baseline scenario for long-run real GDP
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Minimum wage increase crashes against reality of Greeks' low purchasing power
Agoraclashed with the latest data released by Eurostat concerning per capita GDP in the EU in purchasing... that will take the gross wage to 880 euros, paid out in 14 salaries per year, was initially... in 2022 due to the Ukraine conflict and the energy turbulence. Per ELSTAT, housing costs are up by 22 pct
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Newsletter 486 - 28/11/2025
these measures to a wider narrative of resilience: 2.4 per cent growth projected for 2026, nearly double... remain in force until replaced. With just 24 per cent of workers currently covered by collective agreements, the aim is to move closer to the EU directive’s target of 80 per cent. The Prime Minister
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Credit origination and transmission: Are Greek banks part of the problem or the solution?
Agoracredit to the private sector declined by 3.9 per cent year-on-year. The pace of credit contraction... as NPLs (repayment delayed by more than ninety days) reaching 22.9 per cent. Such staggering NPL... and Irish Nationwide. The assets were acquired at a discount of roughly 60 per cent book value of banks
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Greece in 2014: The risks and opportunities of moving forward
AgoraEstonia took first honours in January 2011. Latvia accounts for 0.2 per cent of total GDP in the euro area and will be the poorest country in the single currency zone (measured in terms of GDP-per-capita... in this respect (more than 27 per cent of total official lending to Greece) – the question many ask
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The complexities of regaining market access: Could Greece learn from Portugal?
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Agora. The rate on 4.45 percent Portuguese securities maturing in June 2018 dropped to 3.91 per cent on January... indicators Portugal is missing agreed targets. For one this concerns the government deficit (5.5 per... per cent end-2013).[†] This being said, there may be good reason on the part of Greece to take more
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Greeks living in smaller, older, poorer quality homes during crisis, BoG study shows
Societydrop of 3.6 percent. In terms of the number of rooms per person, Greece has the lowest ranking at 1.2.... The breakdown of households per income during 2008-2012 showed the dramatic burden on household disposable... of migrants, with 44.8 immigrants per 1,000 inhabitants. This is explained by the fact that over
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