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Draft budget highlights taxpayer fatigue, creates policy mix doubts
EconomyMacroeconomythat this underperformance in revenues will also be more evident when the full-year picture emerges. Total revenues have... euros. This total figure is even lower than in 2016, when it landed at 52.34 billion. In the draft budget, not just the 2017 figure has been revised. The total revenue figure for 2018 has also been
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Net job hirings of 17,128 in September after brief dip
EconomyMacroeconomyimproved by 9,340. Hirings came to 261,807 versus a total of 244,679 departures, of which close to 52 percent relate to layoffs. Full-time hirings were below 40 percent of the total in September... among total hirings edged lower to 51.6 percent in September from 55.7 percent in the previous
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Travel balance posts surplus of 3.15 bln in H1 2017
EconomyMacroeconomyshare of total expenditure in H1 2017 at 80.7 percent, with corresponding receipts rising by 8.4 percent... trips for health purposes rose by 96.8 percent year-on-year to total 24 million euros. On the other... of Greek home ports. The port of Piraeus captured 48.6 percent of total cruise receipts, followed
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General govt primary cash surplus at 5.34 bln in nine-month, sharp fall in arrears
EconomyMacroeconomyby 102 million. At 45.7 percent, arrears to SSFs continue to make up the lion’s share of the total... constitute 20.7 percent of the total (931 million). Debt Central government gross debt fell by 1.56... just over 71 percent of the total debt. Bonds edged down to 50.20 billion (15.4 percent of the total
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Newsletter 139 -10/11/2017
the figure for the same time last year. Overall, the total stock of overdue obligations, including legacy... of 6,549 people employed in August compared to the previous month. which brought the total to 3.79 million, 101,578 higher than a year ago. The number of unemployed decreased by 16,769, bringing the total
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General govt primary cash surplus at 6.39 bln in October, arrears continue to decline
EconomyMacroeconomyof the total. Arrears Arrears to the private sector (including tax refund arrears) fell by 200... constitute 19.4 percent of the total (832 million). Debt Central government gross debt rose by 3.78... over 71 percent of the total debt. Bonds were reduced slightly to 50.18 billion (15.2 percent
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Net job hirings balance for November turns negative by 39,221
EconomyMacroeconomyto 42 percent of the total. The balance has persistently remained in favour of part-time and shift work... types of work. In November, part-time and flexible types of work made up 58 percent of the total... for the same time last year was slightly higher at 45.5 percent. The share of males among total
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Newsletter 144 -15/12/2017
time last year (13.91 billion euros). Just over 80 percent of this year’s total (8.48 billion... wholesale and retail trade (18 percent of total), agricultural (11.8 percent), accommodation and food.... Full-time hirings came to 42 percent of the total. In November, part-time and flexible types of work
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Number of private sector employees rises in 2017 but wages fall
EconomyMacroeconomycompanies employed a total of 1.90 million people in 2017. Of this total, 79,043 were employed... up around 13.9 percent of the total, those hiring between 10 and 49 employees accounted for 11.1 percent of the total while there were 584 large firms with over 250 employees each. Following the same
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Travel balance up by 18.2 pct in October on increased foreign arrivals
EconomyMacroeconomyof 14.2 percent and came to 782.4 million euros. For euro-denominated countries, the total rise... percent) and the US (-0.7 percent). In total, EU 28 arrivals rose by 10.3 percent. Those from euro... to 1.63 billion, which led the overall travel surplus to rise by 12.9 percent and land at a total
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