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  1. IMF raises growth forecast for 2019, lowers sharply medium-term expectations
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    previously, albeit higher than the last quarter of 2017, when the economy grew by 2 percent. Real GDP... where countries’ per capita GDP declined more than 20 percent, peak to trough. The sample includes

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  2. Unemployment at 19 pct in July as inactive population increases
    Photo by Angelos Christofilopoulos/Fosphotos

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    Ministry’s Ergani database for August showed that there were 7,748 more departures than hirings... that the balance for the first eight months of the year, which came to 281,813 more hirings than departures

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  3. New overdue taxes rise by 849 mln in August with total stock at 102.81 bln

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    totalled 6.42 billion, lower than the figure for the same period last year by just under 25 percent. New... than the increase of 392 million noted in July. The VAT collectability rate declined to 83.8

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  4. Greece 57th in WEF's Global Competitiveness Index based on new methodology

    EconomyFeatures

    was 62.1 percent, slightly better than the global average score of 60 percent. The result... to the US, while the worst spot was occupied by Chad at number 140. Germany scored 20 points higher than

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  5. Tsipras faces challenges ahead on multiple foreign policy fronts
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    ; Tsipras had a slightly different approach than his Foreign Minister when talks were taking place... Agreement. Logically, foreign policy in general is likely to become more static than in previous years

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  6. Revision confirms second year of total fiscal surplus at 0.8 pct of GDP
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    than the 178.6 percent in April’s estimate, mostly thanks to the upward revision of GDP. Greece’s... is lower as a percentage of the economy but at 317.4 billion is nominally higher than the 315 billion

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  7. Athens and lenders yet to agree on how to drop pension cuts without creating fiscal gap
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    reaching 3.2 percent of GDP next year if the pension cuts are abandoned, rather than the 3.56..., raising the probability of the matter being settled at the Eurogroup in early December rather than next

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  8. Part-time work and low earnings overlie crisis-pounded labour market
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    Society

    to be unemployed than men, while youth unemployment remains rampant. The majority of new jobs being created are either part-time positions or flexible types of work rather than full-time employment

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  9. Religion plays strong role in identity, beliefs of Greeks, international survey suggests

    Society

    Europe were noticeably less accepting of minority groups than elsewhere in Europe, and also had more... their country than western Europeans. Around 74 percent of Greeks said that it was very or somewhat important

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  10. Preparing for a new normal in German politics
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    Agora

    than not to their chagrin and at times with high political costs (see, for example, the experiences... on the policy issues that matter was in the common interest. Nowhere is this better illustrated than

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