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Banks gear up for 2020 stress tests as evaluation begins
EconomyBanking. The long-term risk-free rates according to the baseline will stay low, albeit higher than the rest... percent in 2021 and -0.4 percent in 2022, for a cumulative impact of -6 percent and a total deviation... a deviation of 18 percent, dropping cumulatively by 10.6 percent over the period in scope. Long-term rates
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Newsletter 242 -06/03/2020
. Total employment reached 3.90 million people. The number for the unemployed currently stands at 758,900... loan and deposit rates increased to 4.19 percentage points from 4.16 percentage points in December.... The spread between existing loan and deposit rates was almost unchanged at 3.78 percentage points
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OECD Better Life report finds Greece still lagging in life satisfaction
Societyand populations. It covers a total of 11 indicators of wellbeing, which are income and wealth, housing... of employment rates, gender wage gap and long hours in paid work, Greece scored with high levels... better for long term employment rates, feelings of safety and perceived health among others. Women
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PDMA highlights improving debt profile, targets 8-12 bln in new issues for 2021
Economy- and 15-years, attracting total demand of 77 billion euros. Specifically, the 15-year issue, takes... maturities and low interest rates. Additionally, through PDMA’s own actions almost all of Greece’s debt is at fixed rates, cushioning against interest rate risks. The weighted average maturity stands
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Productivity developments in the Greek public and private sector
Agoraproductivity per person employed (the level of productivity) and also have sound growth rates... is always higher in level than total economy productivity. Productivity levels for the public sector... to the same quarter of a year earlier (to avoid seasonality). Figure 2 shows the growth rates for the economy
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Govt views pandemic window as opportunity to advance contentious reform agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe start of summer in Greece – the pandemic showed further signs of de-escalation. A total of 841... that it might bring a fourth wave ahead of the autumn, due to its high transmission rates which have seen... coming out of the UK, where the variant has become dominant despite relatively high vaccination rates
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Crunch time nears for health system as Covid surge meets staff suspensions
PoliticsGreek Politicswithout pay. Official figures show that up to 20,000 hospital workers (almost 20 pct of the total) have... coverage rates. On Thursday Kathimerini newspaper quoted internal police statistics showing that up... rates are lowest in the fire service, where just over half the force is vaccinated. Wildfire debate
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We can't ignore population shifts within the European Union
Agora, which has low fertility rates and is advanced in aging. The data can change and new projections emerge...-west regions. The share of the total population concentrating in the north-west regions is expected... countries that fertility rates will remain below replacement, which implies that populations will grow
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First-wave champion Greece stumbles at vaccine roll-out
Agorathe start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in February 2020 and October 8, 2021, Greece has recorded a total.... The government’s frustration over low vaccination rates, which became evident as the summer progressed... and vaccination. Regional disparities in vaccination rates, which have become painfully evident through
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EC sees strong recovery in 2021, solid growth in coming years underpinned by RRF
EconomyMacroeconomyvaccination rates and the total number of severe cases that allowed the lifting of containment measures... rates for transport, beverages and cinema tickets until mid-2022. The general government deficit
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