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How the world sees Greece
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
50 years in the making: Greek food at its finest
Valley Community Newspapers50 years in the making: Greek food at its finestValley Community NewspapersTwo grandmas Faye Vallas and Voula Cazanis will be ganging up on chef Patrick Mulvaney at the YiaYia Cookoff while two or three non-Greek judges decide if they have what it takes to beat out the master chef with their eggplant moussaka. The showdown ...
Family fun things to do: GreekFest and more
Parking is $5 on the church grounds, with free parking and shuttle from Riley Llamas, 10800 Towne Road, Carmel. Families can see airplanes up close ... be printed off the festival’s website. The site also has photos of each of the foods ...
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Little Greek takes over Mo? Ziki space
Little Greek Restaurant has acquired the former site of Mo’ Ziki, a fast casual Greek restaurant that opened in Largo in 2011. Little Greek aims to open its 11 th Bay area restaurant at 10801 Starkey Road in late August, a written statement said.
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Greek Press in Australia Marks 100 Years
The Greek Press in Australia has completed a century of life. The first Greek newspaper that was released 100 years ago is still available under a different name and monthly circulation. The first Greek newspaper of Australia was named Australis ...
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Finance minister: Greece needs more money
Finance minister: Greece needs more moneyThe Local.deOnline: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20130820-51495.html. Germany's Finance Minister said on Tuesday that Greece will need another rescue package after the current one expires next year, media reports said. German economy returns to growth after ...
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European Broadcasting Union to stop streaming Greek public TV
Greek ReporterEuropean Broadcasting Union to stop streaming Greek public TVGlobalPostThe organisation had reached its decision amid "encouraging signs that a new public service broadcaster will soon be operational in Greece," she said, noting that ERT's temporary replacement, Greek Public Television (EDT), had been launched. The move ...European broadcasters pull plug on Greek pirate TVBusinessweekEBU to Cease Streaming Greece's ERTGreek ReporterEBU to cease ERT streamingEnetEnglishall 3 news articles »
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Greece posts primary surplus for January-July period
KathimeriniGreece posts primary surplus for January-July periodKathimeriniGreece registered a primary budget surplus and a vast improvement in the deficit of its state budget as a whole in the January-July period, the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday. The primary surplus was 2,555 million euros, against a deficit of 3,083 ...
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Greek banks put the brakes on mortgage credit
KathimeriniGreek banks put the brakes on mortgage creditKathimeriniWith an unemployment rate of nearly 27 percent, twice the eurozone average, young Greeks have to rent, if they can, or lean upon the hospitality of their parents. “You have dreams and plans of starting a life together, and then reality hits you,” said ...and more »
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Online betting firms leaving Greece, some challenge OPAP
KathimeriniOnline betting firms leaving Greece, some challenge OPAPKathimeriniSeveral large companies have decided to leave the Greek market for good following the recent publication of a list of 401 online betting websites that do not have an operating license in Greece. William Hill, one of the biggest online bookmakers in the ...
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If Greece needs a third bailout Europe had better find a formula that sticks
A better approach would see Greece's lenders take more pain up-front – but is Germany prepared to support that?
So, Greece will soon need a third bailout. German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble admitted as much on Tuesday – and was even prepared to say so during the pre-election period in Germany. One assumes Schäuble deemed it safe to dive into these politically contentious waters only because he also stuck to the party line that Athens would receive no more debt forgiveness.
What a shame. If a third bailout is required the time has come for the euro-powers to find a formula that sticks. A small loan package, to fill the hole already identified by the International Monetary Fund, would represent another dose of medicine that isn't working. The Greek economy, weighed down by austerity measures, would stumble along for a while – but a fourth package would loom sooner or later.
A better approach would see Greece's lenders take more pain up-front – get the debt down to manageable levels and hope to see economic growth reduce the burden further. Is Germany, after the election, prepared to support that idea? If it's not, we'll be talking about a fresh eurozone crisis by the end of the year.
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Russian Billionaire Sued By Estranged Wife Over A $20 Million Hawaii Mansion He Bought From Will Smith
We learned earlier this year that Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev bought Will Smith's million Hawaiian mansion back in 2011.
Now Rybolovlev's soon-to-be ex-wife Elena Rybolovleva is suing him over the property, claiming that the fertilizer billionaire bought it to protect money that she could potentially win in the pair's ongoing Swiss divorce case, according to The Daily News.
This is not Rybolovleva's first lawsuit against her husband. She has also sued Rybolovlev over an million NYC penthouse he bought, purportedly for his daughter, as well as Donald Trump's $95 million Palm Beach mansion, also purchased with their daughters' trust.
The Daily News reports that the trust in question has also bought a $300 million Monaco penthouse, players for Rybolovlev's Monaco soccer team, and two Greek islands for $156 million.
Dmitry Rybolovlev and his lawyers insist the purchases are legal since his children's trust was set up prior to the 2008 divorce filing. He defends the subsequent purchases, arguing that they were to secure the future of his two daughters, Ekaterina and Anna.
Rybolovleva's lawyer, David Newman of Day Pitney, told the New York Daily News that Rybolovlev "has been spending money like a drunken sailor." Newman says the real estate purchases violate the Swiss Supreme Court order that froze Rybolovlev's assets in an attempt to keep him from spending the billions he made during the marriage.
Currently worth .1 billion and number 119 on Forbes' list of billionaires, the Russian tycoon is no stranger to controversy. In 1996 he was accused (and later acquitted) of plotting to kill a business partner, and spent 11 months in jail.
He sold his stake Uralkali, a fertilizer company he started in 1990, in 2010 for $6.5 billion.
Rybolovlev and his wife have been battling in Swiss courts since 2008 — both show no sign of slowing down.
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Greek winger set to join Sunderland
CHARIS Mavrias is on his way to Wearside, as Sunderland look to finalise a move for the Greek winger.
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Simple Lamb Kebabs with Greek Flavors
New York Times (blog)Simple Lamb Kebabs with Greek FlavorsNew York Times (blog)Build a fire in your grill; when the coals are covered with gray ash and the temperature is medium high (you can hold your hand 5 inches above the coals for 3 to 4 seconds), you're ready to cook. (For a gas grill, turn all burners to high, lower cover ...and more »
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Greece 'will need another bailout'
Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble says for the first time that Greece will need another bailout to plug a forthcoming funding gap.
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Germany says Greece will need more support
Now Europe's paymaster says it will need more help. Speaking during an election campaign event ... and any talk of a second "haircut" or the provision of new money ahead of national elections on Sept. 22 risks upsetting voters.
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3rd Greek bailout confirmed, no haircut
Greek bond yields hit their highest in three weeks today after German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Athens would need a third bailout and would get no more debt haircuts.
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Greece needs third bail-out, admits German finance minister
Telegraph.co.ukGreece needs third bail-out, admits German finance ministerTelegraph.co.uk"There will have to be another programme in Greece," said Mr Schaeuble, addressing a campaign audience in northern Germany, but maintained that despite this, there would be no further debt haircut for Athens. Just hours before Mr Schaeuble spoke, ...
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Schaeuble Says Greece Needs New Aid Program, Rules Out Debt Cut
Speaking at an election event in the town of Ahrensburg near Hamburg today, Schaeuble said the first debt reduction for Greece was ... Schaeuble’s comments, made less than five weeks before German federal elections, are his clearest indication ...
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Greek yields hit three-week highs as Germany says third bailout needed
"If you're not going to have official sector restructuring, then most people think their debt is unsustainable," said Alan McQuaid, chief economist at Merrion Stockbrokers. "I understand he is a politician playing to the electorate's ears but something's ...
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German minister's Greek aid comments spark pre-election backlash
"TELL THE TRUTH" Schaeuble's comments played into the hands of the opposition, who throughout the election campaign have accused Merkel of failing to tell voters the truth about Greece. "I have made clear that saving Europe and keeping the ...
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Greece will need third bailout, Germany concedes
That still ignores a warning by the International Monetary Fund which said at the end of July the financing gap, which it puts at €11bn to cover the period into 2015, would need to involve some debt relief. In tackling an issue that causes deep anxiety ...
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German Minister says Greece will need third bailout
The German finance minister has admitted for the first time that Greece will need a third bailout. Wolfgang Schaeuble made the comments before a campaign audience in northern Germany just five weeks before national elections in which Chancellor Angela ...
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Teachers Mull Indefinite Strike Plan
Greek school teachers, enraged over a so-called mobility scheme that will thousands of them transferred while being paid lower wages and with many likely to be fired, are planning to conduct an indefinite strike that could begin by refusing to show up to work on the first day of classes on Sept. 11. The primary school and secondary school teachers are considering lasting strikes, while also ...
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Greece Wants EU To Pay Immigrant Hospital Fees
Greek Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis, who is reviewing whether to impose a 25-euros per visit fee for being seen at hospitals, said he wants the European Union to pick up the cost of treatment for illegal immigrants inundating Greece and taxing the health system. The Ministry is recording how many visits are being made by illegal immigrants and what the costs have been at a time when the ...
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Greece's Golden Dawn: A Wake-up Call for Europe
Immigrants, now estimated to make up around 10 percent of Greece's population ... The finances of Golden Dawn party are shrouded in mystery. Over the last two years, the organization has expanded rapidly, opening offices in virtually every Greek town ...
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Greek banks' ECB funding rises in July, ELA falls
ATHENS (Reuters) - European Central Bank funding to Greek banks rose by 900 million euros in July while emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) from the country's central bank decreased by 4.86 billion euros, ...
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Greece launches manhunt after 200 immigrant farmworkers are shot at and wounded for demanding back pay
He compared the harsh exploitation of labour and wanton violence against immigrant workers to Quentin Tarantino’s bloodthirsty film on US slavery ... being promised wages owed to them for the last six months. Instead the owner appeared with three ...
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Greece needs third bailout package: German official
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble says recession-hit Greece will need more rescue loans from its international creditors after the current one expires at the end of 2014. “[Athens is] not over the hills yet…There will have to be another ...
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Privatization Chiefs Firing Upends The Plan
(Photo/Alexandros Vlachos/European Pressphoto Agency) Stelios Stavridis, Chairman of the Greek privatization agency, was forced to resign for hitching a ride on the private jet of an oil magnate involved in an asset sale. ATHENS -- The Greek government's efforts to sell state-owned assets was sidetracked again when the Chairman of the privatization agency was forced to resign after ...
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Privatization?s Next Stop Greek Railways
With Prime Minister Antonis Samaras trying to figure out who will replace Stelios Stavridis, the former head of the country’s privatization agency who was forced to quit after he accepted a ride on the private jet of a businessman who bought a stake in the state gambling monopoly OPAP, the government is hoping to woo investors to buy 100 percent of Hellenic Railways. The line is up for ...
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Trying to make sense of it all
By Angelos Stangos Maybe Panos Kammenos, the leader of the Independent Greeks party, is right after all. Maybe we are being sprayed by chemtrails. For there can be no other explanation for what we have been witnessing over the past few months.For example, ...
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Top ECB official Asmussen due in Greece on Wednesday
European Central Bank Executive Board member Joerg Asmussen will visit Greece on Wednesday to discuss progress on reforms, the ECB said, as talk swirls the country may need more support to meet budget targets.Greece unlocked 5.8 billion euros ($7.75 billion) of bailout funds from its international lenders - the euro area, its national central banks and the International Monetary Fund - in July ...
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Heres Two Votes For SYRIZA
SYRIZA supporters were delirious in June, 2012 when their party, a collection of Maoists, Trotskyites, Communists and ecologists finished second in Greek elections. The near election victory of the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) in June 2012 has made the debate over the conditions for a left to take power of burning contemporary significance. With nearly 27 per cent of the popular vote, ...
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The Vroom Is Gone For Ferrari In Greece
(Photo/Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images) A man passes the closed Ferrari shop in central Athens' shopping area. ATHENS - It is easy to see why Angeliki Karitsa shut up shop this month and announced she would not be back until September. As marketing manager at Greece's sole outlet selling Ferraris - the super car for the super-rich - Karitsa has experienced some recent frustration: ...
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Reforms on track ministers say as PM to focus on repossessions
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and a team of key ministers met at the Maximos Mansion on Tuesday for talks that focused on the implementation of Greece's pending commitments to its international creditors.Emerging from the meeting, ministers told reporters that the government was on track to make good on its pledges but avoided giving details."The deadlines will be met properly and ...
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German Finance Ministry: Third Greek aid deal unavoidable
Germany's finance minister has admitted that debt-stricken eurozone member Greece will definitely need a third bailout program to keep afloat in the next couple of years.
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'Greece will need third aid deal'
It shrank at an annual rate of 4.6 percent in the second quarter. This was, however, a little better than forecast, leading some economists to predict the contraction may decelerate in the fourth quarter. Polls show that Merkel's conservatives are likely ...
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Schaeuble: Greece Needs Third Bailout
Greece received its first bailout from the European Union and International Monetary Fund in 2010 and another followed, taking the current aid programme to a total of €240bn.
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Greek tourism industry experiencing a record number of visitors
Greece's booming summer tourism revenue has given a welcome boost to the cash-strapped country's finances. Tourism receipts, the country's biggest foreign-currency driver, rose 21 percent year-on-year.......
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Germany?s Schaeuble Says Greece Needs New Aid Program
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Greece will need a new aid program to reach its debt sustainability targets, while ruling out another debt cut. Speaking at an election event in the town of Ahrensburg near Hamburg today, Schaeuble ...
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Greece will need third aid deal, German Finance Minister admits
By Gernot Heller AHRENSBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Germany's finance minister admitted for the first time on Tuesday that Greece would need a third aid package, as a source in Athens said the sums involved ...
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Greece, lenders focused on bridging 2014-16 funding gap-source
The official made the comments after German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Athens would need a third bailout programme after its current package ends next year. "Greece and its lenders are examining several ways to plug any funding gap ...
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Greek gods set to come 'alive' in Dave Carlson's docent mini-tour at Quadrangle
My favorite statue is Athena because she was the goddess of wisdom and war. On Aug. 25 at 1 p.m., the Greek gods will come alive in the sculpture hall of the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum at the Quadrangle. Volunteer docent educator Dave Carlson ...
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German finance minister says Greece will need a third aid programme
The West AustralianGerman finance minister says Greece will need a third aid programmeThe West AustralianAHRENSBURG, Germany (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said more explicitly than ever before that international lenders will have to offer Greece a third aid programme. "There will have to be another programme in Greece," ...
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Emelie Forsberg: the bright young star of international trail running
The quirky 26-year-old Swedish athlete has electrified the scene with both her ability and her offbeat personality since her breakthrough last year
At the recent European Skyrunning championships in the rugged beauty of the Italian Dolomites, Sweden won three individual medals; two gold and one silver. An impressive tally, certainly. But consider that this medal haul was the result of the performances of just one athlete. An athlete who, a little over a year ago, was almost completely unknown, even within the close-knit trail and mountain running scene. Her name is Emelie Forsberg.
Orienteering, trekking, climbing, skiing, foraging for mushrooms and berries have been an integral part of her life since she was very young. When the 26-year-old began running trails five years ago it was a natural transition – a basic desire to move quickly over steep and technical terrain. It was, more than anything else, unbridled fun. Then, after victories at some local races last year, she joined the Swedish Salomon team and was asked to accompany the international team for a week-long training retreat in Greece. She made an immediate impression and has been an integral part of the team ever since.
"I love her joie de vivre, her simplicity, her relationship with nature," says Greg Vollet, manager of the Salomon Trailrunning team. Her leftfield and, at times, downright quirky approach to training and racing is at the core of what makes her so special – take her first mountain-marathon win in 2010, which was achieved after taking a long, mountain-top break to eat some chocolate cake that she had brought along. Or the time when, at the end of her breakthrough season last year, Vollet enquired as to what her plans were for the next year. "She started to talk to me about climbing projects; she didn't talk to me about running at all. I was speechless," he says with a laugh. Forsberg's running successes are not the primary goal, it seems, rather a simple by-product of her deep-rooted love for moving fast in the mountains, and, damn, does she move fast.
Such has been Forsberg's speed through and above the tree-line, such has been the swathe she has cut through the Skyrunning circuit on the mountain ranges of Europe this summer, that she has placed in the top 10 overall in a number of the races she has competed in. She is spearheading a new era for the sport, where younger runners, both women and men, are dominating. It's something that was unheard of until quite recently as Lauri Van Houten, vice president of the International Skyrunning Federation (ISF) explains. "We have seen in recent years very young runners do amazing things," she says. "This was unheard of 10, 20 years ago when the runners doing this sport were more mature." Forsberg is the face of this new era – to see her beaming on the finish line after running 80km across a series of high-altitude summits would make even the most ardent ultra-doubters, ponder. "Why does she look like she's actually having fun?" Well, the fact is she is. As Van Houten puts it, "I've rarely seen such unbounded love of the mountains in anyone."
Forsberg currently calls the Norwegian city of Tromso, deep inside the arctic circle, her home. It's a place where the sun disappears behind the cities surrounding mountains for two months of the year, between late November and late January – the "polar night". This is her beloved Nordic bolthole, the place where she'll withdraw to when the racing season winds down and it's time to reflect on another amazing year. It offers her peace, quiet and a well-earned opportunity to recuperate. A time to partake her other passion – baking sourdough bread, buns stuffed with cardamom and cinnamon and chocolate cake. A time, simply, to breathe and unwind. Greg Vollet remembers his first encounter with Forsberg: "Emelie said: 'You know, I always put on a little weight during the winter because it is dark and cold all day at home, so we do not go outside so much, we spend our time in pubs drinking beer.' I immediately appreciated her state of mind." For Forsberg, you see, the contrasts are what's appealing – work and play, summer and winter, fast and slow, ascent and descent. Change and diversity seem to bring about the best from her.
When she won her first ultra trail race, the TNF 50 mile in San Francisco late last November, I likened Forsberg to the aurora borealis: she makes an appearance, blows people's minds and then disappears back into the inky darkness of the northern European winter. What we've witnessed this summer, however, is something else entirely – she has lighted up the trails and peaks in a continuous show of energy, power and warmth – like a running, smiling, skipping midnight sun.
• Forsberg's next race is the Matterhorn Ultracks – the fourth race of the Skyrunning Sky Series, on Saturday 24 August 2013. Visit ultraks.com for more details.
Robbie Lawless is the editor of runtramp.com. To read more on Forsberg visit her blog, emelieforsberg.com. To find out more about Skyrunning visit skyrunning.com
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#INT13 day 1 ? In which ancient Greek philosophy meets ?the other Darwin?
#INT13 day 1 – In which ancient Greek philosophy meets “the other Darwin”BMC Pediatrics (blog)The first plenary of the day saw Sandra Diaz of Córdoba National University in Argentina guide us through a historical tour of plant functional traits that took in 4th Century Greek philosopher Theophrastus —the father of functional ecology who first ...
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Luis Alfaro puts Chicago spin on Greek tragedy
Luis Alfaro puts Chicago spin on Greek tragedyChicago Sun-Times“The Greek playwrights asked their community, their audience, to consider many wonderful, difficult questions, and then left them to answer those questions for themselves,” said Alfaro, a big, bearlike, intensely voluble man. And that is precisely what ...
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UPDATE 1-ECB's Asmussen to check up on Greek reform progress
* French fin min: Greece on track, no need for more aid FRANKFURT, Aug 20 (Reuters) - European Central Bank Executive Board member Joerg Asmussen will visit Greece on Wednesday to discuss progress on reforms needed to ensure more bailout money ...
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ECB's Asmussen to visit Greece to discuss progress on reforms
Greece unlocked 5.8 billion euros ($7.75 billion) of bailout funds from its international lenders - the euro area, its national central banks and the International Monetary Fund - in July and stands to receive another 1 billion euros in October ...
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Greece
This report gives 14 indicators that describe a country's macro fiscal environment to identify constraints or opportunities for health systems financing. A country with a 10 percent unemployment rate that has fallen from 15 percent may be in better shape than one with an 8 percent unemployment rate that has risen from 4 percent. It is also important to benchmark to group averages of countries in the same World Bank (WB) region and income group- high income country (HIC), upper middle income country (MIC), lower MIC, or low income country (LIC).
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