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Parliamentary report highlights demographics challenge and urges immediate action
Societypress as concern grows over how falling fertility rates will shape the country’s economic and social... had a fertility rate of 2.45 children per woman. From 1981 onwards, fertility rates started to slip... was noted with a slight rise in fertility rates to around 1.5 children. However, this increase came
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Despite differing views IMF and EC see no immediate debt sustainability concerns
EconomyProgrammeprogramme from 3 months Euribor rates to fixed rates of 94 basis points. This involves more than 52... throughout the last programme was pushing for official sector loans to move to fixed rates that would take advantage of the low funding cost environment for the ESM and EFSF and fixing those rates was part
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Yields rise, but Greek debt still partly shielded from market headwinds
Economyabout inflation expectations and the next moves by central banks that could push their rates to levels.... At current inflation rates, real rates of government bonds are in deep negative territory and markets..., if not a technical recession during the winter, as higher rates might put investment spending on hold
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Does the EU Commission suffer from optimism bias? (Part 1)
Agora. Figure 3 summarizes these results in a comparative way. We show the growth rates in productivity..., would be poised to achieve full convergence in their growth rates to the better performing member... debt. If the EC forecasts such high potential growth rates with the right investment and policy support
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Macroeconomic fundamentals for Greece
Agorarolled over, from friendly governments holding at a discounted rate to market interest rates... growth rates of the population and the WAP are around -0.4 percent a year (rounded to one decimal...; a sharp cut in risk premia on interest rates in Greece triggering massive borrowing; and a wage boom
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Greece - Some structural macroeconomic arithmetic
Agorasupply (number of workers available to produce GDP) is also declining around the same rates. Real GDP... of partner EU countries are holding Greek debt at very low interest rates through about the mid-2030s.... Interest rates on the new debt issues in Greece have hovered around 4 percent. At the current 165
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A closer look at Greece's Q3 2023 national accounts
Agoraproductivity growth rates. The economies are slowing down, while employment growth is still holding up for now—this moves productivity growth rates down. It is consistent with the finding that the labor... productivity growth rates into the future. High rates would help, because they boost potential output
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Where is Greek growth coming from?
Agoragrowth rates (seasonally and working-day adjusted data) for Q1-2009 through Q4-2023. The graph shows.... Quarterly growth rates hit -4 percent several times, and were negative overall. A truly deep recession, as we remember. 2) Then came a period of gradual recovery, from mid-2013 to end- 2019. Growth rates
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After Q3 results, what next for Greek banks?
Agoraon the quarter, fully attributed to lower time deposit rates in Greece coupled with less reliance... of deposit rates in the banks acquired over the past 12 months, whose deposit rates were 1 percentage point... to monetary policy tightening and regulatory headwinds. Greek term deposit rates fell by 0.80
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Why did Greece return to bond markets now? Was it the right decision?
Economyreduction of banks’ time deposit rates. This would lead to lower lending yields. Finance Ministry sources... than the higher 10-year rate, and are expected to cut lending rates by 1 percentage point. The lower... not need. Furthermore, the differential between real interest rates and the growth of the economy
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