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  1. Higher education in Greece needs radical overhaul to create labour-relevant workforce, study says
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    Society

    and 2016, university graduates saw a significant drop in employment in the public sector, while... production model can not be built,” the report states. It identifies several challenges that need... sector was 884 euros in 2016 compared to 1,054 euros in 2008. In the public sector, despite falling

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  2. Development model questioned again amid reaction to luxury resort go-ahead

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    of the development model promoted by the New Democracy government. On Saturday PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke... brings a new model of value-added development to the area, pointing to the heavy investment

    85%

  3. Study casts light on unusual export profile, identifies areas for improvement
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    EconomyFeatures

    exports. The report noted that Greece’s export profile was unusual in that exports represented a small

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  4. Greek pensions laid bare
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    Agora

    billion. The combined total corresponded to 9.6 percent of GDP. Despite a sharp drop of 21 percent... this period. The biggest annual drop was recorded in 2013 when the full impact of the last pension cut... pensions amounts to 884 euros. Note, though, that for around 45 percent of pensioners their monthly

    73%

  5. If you think it's bleak for Greece now, wait until tomorrow
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    Agora

    prospects based on the model that an economy’s long-term economic level depends on its capital stock, its... productivity growth since 1970 has been averaging 0.7 percent, by far the lowest in the euro area, which

    71%

  6. Seasonal jobs bring down Q2 unemployment to 26.6 pct but long-term jobless rising
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    The non-seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate posted a drop both year on year (YoY) and quarter on quarter (QoQ) to 26.6 percent in Q2 2014 from 27.8 percent in the previous quarter and 27.3 percent... among females remains 7pp above that of men, at 30.4 percent compared to 23.5 percent for men. Both

    64%

  7. Newsletter 1 31/10/2014

    Newsletters

    on the dynamic (agreed restructuring plans after the end of 2013) rather than the static (end-2013 figures) model... involves the capital surplus that Greek banks showed under the dynamic model, which reached 10.7... lender that passed the stress tests under the static model even without taking into account

    58%

  8. Greek gg primary cash surplus at 2.2 bln in 2014, arrears down to 3.75 bln

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    , at an accelerating pace of 17.6 percent after a 9.6 percent drop in November. December reading indicates the highest monthly drop in 2014. In absolute terms, arrears fell to 3.75 billion euros at the end.... Following December evolution, the drop of gg guarantees stood at 16 billion for 2014 compared to 23.1

    55%

  9. Greek primary budget surplus eases to 1.95 bln on back of lower revenues in Aug
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    Economy

    resumed again an upward trend in August showing a slight rise of 0.6 percent after a 3.2 percent drop... revenue targets included revenues of 884 million euros from the first two instalments of the new

    52%

  10. Current account deficit widens to 404 mln in March

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    a sharp drop in the primary income surplus (by 859 million) followed by a narrowing of the services... assets, largely due to a drop in residents’ holdings of foreign bonds and T-Bills by 11.4 billion... time, residents’ net external liabilities decreased by 2.5 billion euros in Q1, mainly due to a drop

    50%