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No time for Tsipras to celebrate as long list of tasks means pressure is on from start
EconomyProgrammeof farmers. Other key deliverables for October include: 1) Reform of the income tax code (ITC) also integrating into the ITC the solidarity levy as of 2016. 2) Identify all business income tax... include legislation for: 1) Equivalent measures to fully compensate for the court ruling ordering
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Newsletter 72 - 06/05/2016
will leave the remaining 1 percent of GDP in measures, mostly increases to indirect taxes, to be approved so the main package of fiscal interventions can be settled. This will then leave the extra 2 percent... to back another package worth 2 percent of GDP, even if it may never be implemented. The European
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Going for Growth: What next for Greece's economy and banks?
Agoratourism numbers in 2018 - some 30 million visitors who between them spent 16.1 billion euros[1]. And yet with 18.6 percent unemployment[2], millions of Greeks still don’t have work or a path to a better..., with a series of capital market suspensions and a stock market that has contracted by 83 pct (figure 1
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Public sector capital stock in Greece and the Euro-19
Agorain fixed capital stock is important for the wellbeing of all citizens. Figure 1 below shows two lines... spending in the economy as a whole.[1] Benchmarking. Similar calculations of the size of a public sector capital stock have been done for OECD countries and a number of emerging and developing countries.[2
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Where is Greek growth coming from?
Agorathree stages for the Greek economy. 1) The collapse of activity between early-2009 and mid-2013..., as we remember. 2) Then came a period of gradual recovery, from mid-2013 to end- 2019. Growth rates... concluded that real growth could be over 2 percent, even up to 2.5 percent. I have some concerns about
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Newsletter 280 -15/01/2020
, a figure which notably includes 31 pct of ND voters. Around a third of the total interpreted the move... of March, allowing almost 2 million people in high-risk groups to be inoculated, thereby easing..., bringing the total figure to a surplus of 728 million euros. The equivalent figure for the same time
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The case for a general government balance sheet
Agoraand 2 illustrate balance sheet data in more detail. Figure 1 above captures for Greece and the Euro-19... to a more detailed look at the balance sheets in Tables 1 and 2. The balance sheets reflect the data..., it is possible to make the balance sheet not only backward looking, as in Tables 1 & 2, but also
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Newsletter 214 -12/07/2019
-on-year, the figure for those employed increased by 74,993 or a rise of 2 percent. Total employment... after it dipped below 2 percent just before the election. 2 Unemployment falls to 17.6 pct in April... in the year so far after March’s drop of 0.2 percent. Month-on-month (MoM), the index declined by 2 percent
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IAPR annual data shows growing tax pile and pressure on middle-income taxpayers
EconomyDecember 1, 2016 to January 1, 2019. In addition, of the total amount, only 3.69 billion, or 3.5 percent... due from debtors. In total, around 816,721 bank accounts of taxpayers and tax debtors were accessed..., a total of 5.5 billion euros was collected last year from such interventions. For the current year
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General govt primary cash surplus at 1.78 bln in June, arrears drop by 3 mln
EconomyMacroeconomyto stand at 1.91 billion euros, representing under 1 percent of the total. Guarantees The stock of gg..., bringing the total figure to 639 million euros. The equivalent figure for the same time last year was 1.11 billion. A decline was also noted in local governments, where the total fell by 109 million euros
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