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  1. Newsletter 189 -11/01/2018

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    allows him to continue in office even if he does not get 151 out of the 300 votes (he needs a 2/5... of at least 151 votes for the name deal but there are doubts about whether he could also do the same..., meaning that four could support the government and help Tsipras get closer the 151 votes he is looking

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  2. Is VAT all you've got?

    Agora

    Grabbing a coffee for 20 cents less doesn’t really sound like the start of an economic recovery but who knows, maybe after this week’s decision to cut value added tax at restaurants and cafes, Greece will soon be measuring out its success with coffee spoons. Naturally, the government has made

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  3. Debt relief or debt restructuring for Greece?

    Agora

    of the troika would apply the same measuring rod to the calculation of Greece’s sovereign debt and its

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  4. New data shows 6.2 pct of Greek labour force in gray area
    Photo by Harry van Versendaal

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    force by measuring three new categories. 1) The underemployed, part-time workers represent those

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  5. ELSTAT sees 2013 primary deficit at 8.7 pct of GDP, 40 bln wiped out from economy since 2010

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    emphasises that in measuring the primary surplus under EAP a number of revenue and expenditure items

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  6. Car registrations continue to rise; up by 9.1 pct in April

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    confidence, an indicator measuring the degree of optimism among consumers, improved for the second

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  7. May sees 48.7 pct rise in number of new cars in circulation

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    for the first time since Q3 2009. Consumer confidence, which is another leading indicator measuring the degree

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  8. Greek tax revenues at 33.5 pct of GDP in 2013, slightly below OECD average
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    . In measuring the performance of VAT, the OECD provided the VAT revenue ratio (VRR) as a comparative

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  9. Income inequality in Greece remained high in 2013
    Photo by Harry van Versendaal

    Society

    , when it was 6.6. Measuring using the same ratio, income inequality for the over 65s increased to 4.1

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  10. Greek regions perform poorly in social progress index

    Society

    indicator, where 13.5 points separated them. In the indicator measuring basic human needs, the gap

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