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consumption deflator
• Last updated: 19 November
2009
• Source:
OECD Economic Outlook: Flash file - quarterly projections
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• Chronic problems of the Greek economic system that
touch both the public and private sectors.
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• Need for a long-term program of structural, fiscal and
institutional adaptation
CURRENT STATE OF THE GREEK ECONOMY
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• Real GDP contracted in 2009 as the effects of the global crisis
gradually spread to the Greek economy
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• The unemployment rate is set to reach a double–digit level
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• The current account deficit is likely to remain high
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• Long–term fiscal viability: Further pension and health care reforms
• Increasing labour and product market flexibility
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CURRENT STATE OF THE GREEK ECONOMY
CURRENT STATE OF THE GREEK ECONOMY
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• 20th Annual Greek Economy Conference (Athens 30-01
Nov.2009)
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• Meeting of the ECOFIN on December 2nd 2009 in
Brussels
REFORMS REQUIRED FOR THE ECONOMIC
RECOVERY OF GREECE
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• Fiscal sector
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• Tax revenue
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• Better control of primary expenditure
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• Pension reform
THE ROLE OF GREECE AS A REGIONAL TRADE PARTNER AND
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THE ROLE OF GREECE AS A REGIONAL TRADE PARTNER AND
INVESTING FACTOR IN THE SEE GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT
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THE ROLE OF GREECE AS A REGIONAL TRADE
PARTNER AND INVESTING FACTOR IN THE SEE
GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT
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• Private Productive Investments: The estimated available sum amounts to
€14,968,000. 6 proposals have been approved to this day, (total cost:
€9,605,995, total HiPERB funding: €2,861,564). Four of those have
already been completed. The rate of absorbance is estimated at 19.11%
and 660 new jobs have been created.
• Small Projects Fund: The estimated available sum amounts to €748,400. 8
proposals have been approved to this day for projects of a total cost of
€302,700. These are mostly projects of a social nature: purchase of first-
aid mobile units for Skopje, Bitola and Tetovo, provision with medical
equipment, etc. The rate of absorbance is 40.44%.
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THE ROLE OF GREECE AS A REGIONAL TRADE PARTNER AND
INVESTING FACTOR IN THE SEE GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT
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THE ROLE OF GREECE AS A REGIONAL TRADE PARTNER AND
INVESTING FACTOR IN THE SEE GEOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT
country.
Α. Exports:
• Growth rate for Greece’s imports almost double than that of exports
• Imports from Albania and Bulgaria
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GREEK ECONOMIC DIPLOMACY-ENERGY SECTOR