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  1. Bank of Greece sees potential for recovery, urges calm in negotiations
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    . Following the better-than-expected GDP outcome in the 9-month period, BoG upgraded its macro estimates... than expected dampening effect on the economy. An additional risk involves the existing gaps... by 11.3 percent, which corresponds to more than 100,000 NPls, mainly focusing on long-term solutions

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  2. Space and time the missing elements in Greek bailout talks
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    Agora

    of road. The programme has less than 18 months to run, Greece cannot fund itself beyond the summer... (in terms of his and SYRIZA’s future) than hanging on until the last minute and signing up to a deal he... Tsipras and SYRIZA with a much more respectable legacy than the one they are destined

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  3. Athens grapples with awkward reduction of tax-free threshold
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    EconomyProgramme

    . The IMF has repeatedly stressed that more than half of Greek wage earners are exempt from paying... or two children respectively. It remained unchanged for families with more than 3 children... to 2,100 euros (for families with more than three children. It is worth noting that those tax-free

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  4. Multiple potential benefits await Greece if it can clinch QE eligibility
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    EconomyFeatures

    billion euros. It will increase to almost 4.2 billion between mid-July and April 2018 and to more than 5... is delayed significantly, the impact on bond yields would be lower than initially estimated and would... since last May, having sold more than 10 billion euros of EFSF bonds and recording trading gains

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  5. From MoU exit to Grexit: Where next for Greece?
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    Agora

    of primary surplus targets that would be lower than the 3.5 percent of GDP originally envisioned and for less than the 10 years agreed in the fraught summer of 2015. Armed with these gains... people, but also a much more positive legacy for Tsipras and SYRIZA to take with them than the last

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  6. Greece sees highest tax wedge increase among OECD countries in 2016
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    Economy

    The tax wedge in Greece remained above the OECD average in 2016, when it increased by more than 1... above where it was by 2015. The tax wedge stood at 40.2 percent in Greece in 2016, more than 4 pp higher than the OECD average figure, which edged down 0.1 pp to 36 percent. The deviation of the Greek

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  7. Study finds contrasting trends in Greek health during crisis
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    Society

    The impact of the economic crisis in Greece on health has been more nuanced than previous reports... medical assistance or take tests has more than doubled from 10 percent in 2010 to almost 22 percent.... For example, in 2014 there were 174 more suicides in Greece than in 2009. However, as the study underlines

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  8. Banks meet overall NPE reduction target in Q1 2017, largely on write-offs
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) to 103.9 billion, 1.3 billion lower than the target of 105.2 billion. However... in Q1, 1.8 billion lower than the target. In contrast, residential NPEs came in at 27.7 billion, 400 million above the target, while consumer NPEs amounted to 14.3 billion, 100 million higher than

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  9. Compliance report looks at programme financing, arrears clearance and 2016 performance
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    EconomyProgramme

    in arrears clearance, having reduced the stock by more than one third since June 2016. The pile... on 2016 revenues relate to the higher than expected dividend from the Bank of Greece as well..., lower than expected investment spending and continued expenditure restraint also supported the fiscal

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  10. Government stalls possible bond issue, clashes again with judiciary
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Monetary Fund is holding its executive board meeting on June 20, rather than June 27 as was initially... that it achieves a lower yield than the New Democracy-led coalition in 2014, when it reached 4.95 percent... that the 2014 bond had a yield that was 1.41 times higher than Portugal’s rate. He suggested that if the same

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