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  1. The IMF crisis and how to solve it
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    Agora

    time checks and balances The silence of the technocrats responsible for global consistency of IMF... to or the management of the next global crisis. *Gabriel Sterne is the head of global macro investor relations

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  2. Greece continues to edge up in "ease of doing business" rankings despite persistent problems

    Economy

    for court users. However, Greece’s global ranking worsened to 155 from 98 last year. The report also... displayed that the areas where Greece improved its global ranking were: Getting credit (71 from 86... permits (88 from 66), getting electricity (80 from 61) and paying taxes (59 from 53). The Global

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  3. What in the world will we do without barbarians?
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    Agora

    payments from 2003 onwards. The global financial storm of 2008 found Greece in a precarious fiscal... above 10 billion. A global liquidity drain was approaching for a country that needed well over 20... introspection for the reasons that it ended up being a global pariah, going cap in hand to others

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  4. Newsletter 90 - 30/09/2016

    Newsletters

    of 2011, resulting in a 23 percent drop in loan balance over this period. Greece’s ranking in the Global... of the highest figures recorded by the Pew Research Centre in its Spring Global Attitudes Survey... Orthodox connection between Greece and Russia, although the prevailing scepticism in Greece about global

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  5. Debt relief, MTFS and return to bond markets on agenda after technical agreement
    Photo by Yiannis Drakoulidis/Fosphotos

    EconomyProgramme

    there is a basis for a global deal later this month. In addition, a ratification of the agreement at technical..., where discussions on a global deal including debt relief measures are expected to take place... markets as early as June subject to a global deal agreed with lenders, including debt relief measures

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  6. Greeks trust social media more than news media, Reuters study shows
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    Society

    of the reason why, on a global level, Greeks came out as the only news consumers in the world who... sources and 28 percent responded positively for social media. The average global rate for trust... percent along with a tripling of news donations. The global average for those who pay for online news

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  7. Study casts light on unusual export profile, identifies areas for improvement
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    EconomyFeatures

    to the rest of the world. Between 2010-2015, when global exports increased by 15.6 percent, Greece’s exports... in bulk. This oil is then blended, packaged and re-sold as Italian olive oil in the global export market... of operating costs and participation in global exhibitions.

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  8. The oil and gas debate Greece is not having

    Agora

    to discourses of simplistic silver bullet “solutions” to economic development. However, in the current global... the Paris agreement target of “limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts... are to keep global temperatures from rising above 1.5°C – or even above the much more dangerous threshold

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  9. Spree of media deals puts spotlight back on ownership issues

    Society

    ownership from major domestic business interests. Nevertheless, Greece’s standing in global measures... – the lowest score in the global sample - and that distrust for the country’s media closely matches distrust... trust the news sources they choose to use, one of the lowest scores in the global sample. The report

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  10. PMI at 53.9 points in Dec, marking solid end to 2019
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    despite softening, while exports increased against the trend of a global slowdown. “Output... and a greater global presence,” they noted. “Downside risks for 2020 from ongoing global economic

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