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Newsletter 52 - 20/11/2015
percent of GDP in 2015 and around 1 percent in 2016. In mid-July, the government legislated... percentage points. Other reports indicated higher SSC increases of 1–1.5 percentage points for employers and 0.5–1 percent point for employees. These measures may be part of the first programme review
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Welcome to the club: Greece Joins the 17+1 network
Agorain 2012, the 16+1 network organizes annual Central and Eastern Europe–China Summits. In practice... in the Western Balkans.[1] Apart from China, which stands for the number one, the political and economic... infrastructure over educational initiatives to industrial park construction. The first 16+1 summit was held
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Excess of vaccines in Serbia will go to waste
Agora. Then, on March 19, Vučić announced that the state will start promoting vaccination on April 1... of 7,999 that was recorded on December 1. Hospitals are overcrowded and some people with mild.... The demand was still strong, people were looking for connections to hook them up with a vaccine
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Does the EU Commission suffer from optimism bias? (Part 1)
Agora(the Book). In part 1 of this blog we will highlight differences in the macroeconomic scenarios... on the Maastricht deficit and debt Criteria. * * * Figure 1 below compares the baseline scenario... that was derived in preceding chapters of the Book.[1] The baseline scenario of the Book is well
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What Dijsselbloem didn't say
Agora, the euro area’s overall current account “stayed moderately positive,” never exceeding 1 percent... when PSI eventually took place, leaving taxpayers and the official sector on the hook." While
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Gov't lowers tax-free threshold, prepares for third pillar of measures worth 1 pct of GDP
EconomyProgrammereforms but also on other measures, each yielding 1 percent of GDP to a total of 3 percent of GDP (5.4... percent, expected to be effective from July 1 and with estimated revenues of around 450 million euros... with lenders and would yield 0.35 percent of GDP involve: As of June 1 Increase in the excise tax on gasoline
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CPI rises by 1 pct in June, staying positive for third month
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose by 1 percent in June following an increase of 0.6 percent... July 2017 to June 2018 was 0.6 percent. Month-on-month, the CPI rose by 1 percent compared to May’s...) rose by 1 percent year-on-year in June. Month-on-month the HICP increased by 0.9 percent. The overall
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Where is Odysseus? Part 1 - Demographics
AgoraIn 2019, one of us wrote a book[1] about the Greek economy called “The Macroeconomy of Greece... demographics impacts the availability of labor (L). Population. Figure 1 refreshes the population baseline... demographic transition is moving toward an elderly and smaller population. In Table 1, we provide a sample
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National Bank reports 1.15 bln H1 profit on back of 1 bln deferred tax
EconomyBankingYoY in H1 but rose 1 percent QoQ with net interest margin (NIM) improving to 2.74 percent in Q2. The quarterly rebound in NII is attributed to Turkey (up 6 percent), while Greek NII eased 1 percent QoQ.... Deposits rose 8 percent YoY in H1 and slipped 1 percent QoQ to 65.4 billion euros. In Greece, deposits
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Greece seeks to finalise 1 pct of GDP in new tax measures to close review
EconomyMacroeconomymeasures related to pension reform and direct taxes - each yielding 1 percent of GDP (1.8 billion euros) - the government has to identify additional measures of 1 percent of GDP to cover the fiscal gap of 3... to cover this last 1 percent of GDP are primarily focused on raising (indirect) tax revenues and include
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