of D. Katsagani The Bank of Greece is in favor of increasing the coverage of the beneficiaries of the minimum guaranteed income. According to the annual report of the BoG governor, Giannis Stournara, for 2021, “significant protection gaps remain, eg with regard to the unemployed, as mentioned above, but also the very poor households, of […]
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Ethn. Transparency Principle: OECD Positive Assessment for Greece in Combating Bribery of Foreign Officials
Published today, March 22, 2022, the evaluation report of Greece by the OECD on the implementation of the Convention for the Suppression of Corruption of Foreign Officials in International Business Transactions. The text of the report recognizes the efforts that our country has made in recent years at the institutional and organizational level for the […]
OECD: The war in Ukraine will reduce global growth by more than one percentage point
The war in Ukraine will reduce global growth by more than one percentage point this year and increase global inflation by 2.5 percentage points, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimates in a report released today, calling on governments react with targeted measures to increase spending. Well-targeted increases in public spending by OECD […]
OECD: Sees 1% of global GDP loss due to war in Ukraine
The crisis in Ukraine could reduce global growth by one percentage point and add two and a half points to inflation, the OECD said, calling for targeted increases in government spending. Well-targeted increases in government spending by OECD countries of 0.5% of GDP could halve the economic impact of the war without significantly adding to […]
OECD: Greek households had the second largest income increase in the third quarter of 2021
Greek households had the second largest income increase among OECD countries (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), according to data released today by the Organization. The real per capita income of Greek households increased by 5% compared to the second quarter of 2021, while on average in the OECD countries it increased by 0.2%. The […]
Neither Argentina nor Italy nor South Africa: the OECD certifies that Spain suffered the greatest economic collapse in 2020
Spain suffered in 2020 the biggest economic collapse of all the developed economies in the world. And, also, of many others that are not so. This has been certified by the OECD, an organization that this Tuesday published its new world forecasts and shows that the 11% that Spain’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) collapsed exceeds […]
A doped job market
The Minister of Social Security, Josà © Luis Escrivá, said a few days ago in an interview with the newspaper ‘Financial Times’ that the unemployment forecasts of the OECD and the Bank of Spain that placed unemployment in Spain by over 20% at the end of 2020 “had completely failed”. And technically he is right, […]
Spain, in favor of a “broad agreement” for an international vaccination ‘passport’ that allows travel without restrictions
The Government of Spain and the European Commission are in favor of seeking “a broad agreement” in the EU to issue an international vaccination certificate that allows travel and circumvent the restrictions imposed to prevent the spread of Covid-19, as they have stated sources from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The initial proposal has come […]
Spaniards suffered the third largest drop in disposable income in the entire OECD between April and June
In the second quarter of 2020, Spain recorded a 7.46% decrease in disposable income per head compared to the three previous months, which represents the third deepest quarterly decline among all countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) whose data were published this Thursday, only surpassed by the decline of 10.36% in […]
A global digital tax would raise up to $ 100 billion each year
The jackpot is worth $ 100 billion. This is the amount of additional tax revenue that would be generated by the reform of the digital tax system of multinationals as envisioned by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The report, adopted last Friday by the 137 countries of the inclusive framework discussing this reform under the […]
