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Part-time work and low earnings overlie crisis-pounded labour market
Societyto 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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Human Rights Commissioner calls for improvements to battered healthcare system
Societythan half between 2009 to 2015. Treatment services, diagnostics, and disease prevention programmes... and by more than half in 2011-2012. Further measures led to the closure of specialised clinics
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Unemployment at 18.9 pct in August, unemployed remain under 1 mln
EconomyMacroeconomyshowed that there were 6,556 more hirings than departures. September’s balance returns the figure.... In the aggregate period, the employment balance showed 288,369 more hirings than departures. Ergani noted
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Getting to the church on time
Agorause of property rather than from the beleaguered Greek taxpayer’s pockets. Even using the vacated... long-term plan about how to address deficiencies in the delivery of public services rather than
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Budget primary surplus at 6.46 bln in October on improved revenues and primary underspend
EconomyMacroeconomyby 0.2 percent to 38.70 billion, lower than the target by 618 million. PIB PIB revenues came to 114... a deficit of 406 million in the first ten months of the year, 574 million better than the target.
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What Greece imports and why
EconomyFeaturesthan any other category during the crisis years. Imports of machinery, meanwhile, have recovered... trade deficit is more likely going to involve ramping up exports rather than cutting back exports
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Tsipras talks up 'positive' measures but polls show little impact so far
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernment has paid out more than 750,000 main, supplementary and lump-sum pensions since coming to power... clearly feels that he now has something tangible to show voters rather than the theoretical benefits
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Primary surplus confirmed at 6.44 bln in October on revised budget targets
EconomyMacroeconomyto 38.70 billion, lower than the target by 300 million. The MoF noted that the movement in expenditure... of 403 million in the first 10 months of the year, 1.32 billion better than the target
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New overdue taxes jump by 1.4 bln in Sept, with total stock exceeding 104 bln
EconomyMacroeconomydebt totalled 7.84 billion, lower than the figure for the same period last year by 15.3 percent. New..., lower than the increase of 745 million noted in August. The VAT collectability rate rose to 86.3
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Athens moves quickly to scrap pension cuts as Eurogroup inches forward on euro reform
EconomyProgrammeafter a meeting in Brussels that lasted much longer than usual (19 hours, according to some) because... than the originally foreseen date of 2024, provided that sufficient progress with risk reduction
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