Issue No 56 – February 2025
1. Recent (macro-)economic developments
1.1. The main demand components in the first nine months of 2024,
Yannis Panagopoulos, Konstantinos Loizos, p. 6-15
1.2. Developments in inflation in Greece and the Eurozone,
Emilia Marsellou, p. 16-20
1.3. Factor model forecasts for the short-term prospects in GDP,
Macroeconomics Forecasting Unit, Ersi Athanassiou, Aristotelis Koutroulis, Emilia Marsellou, Theodore Tsekeris, p. 21-23
1.4. 2024 was a year of positive returns for the Greek stock market,
Fotini Economou, p. 24-29
1.5. Recent developments and prospects of global economic activity: Global economic growth is set to stabilize at 2024 levels,
Aristotelis Koutroulis, p. 30-35
2. Fiscal developments
2.1. State Budget, public debt, fiscal outlook,
Elisavet Nitsi, Yiorgos Ioannidis, p. 36-43
3. Human resources and social policies
3.1. Recent developments in key labour market variables,
Ioannis Cholezas, p. 44-50
3.2. Gender pay gap of non-manual workers across the EU countries (2022),
Vlassis Missos, p. 51-54
4. Reforms-Economic development
4.1. Digital competitiveness of the Greek economy,
Athanasios Chymis, p. 55-60
4.2. Net Foreign Direct Investment in Greece,
Georgios Bertsatos, Christos Chrysanthakopoulos, p. 61-65
Special topics
Investigation of the persistence of Harmonised Inflation and its components in Greece and the euro area,
Alexandros Karakitsios, Evangelia Kasimati, Euripides Kondelis, Zacharias Bragoudakis, p. 66-81
Public health, multidimensional child poverty, Social Security and Demographic issues,
Eirini Leriou, p. 82-100