Greece

Boosting investment in Greece

Aggregate investment has declined markedly over the crisis and has yet to recover. Reviving domestic and foreign investment is crucial to supporting the economic recovery, deepen Greece’s integration into global value chains and raising living standards.

Generating employment, raising incomes and addressing poverty in Greece

Employment is pivotal to strengthening Greece’s economic recovery, increasing social welfare and redressing poverty.

Working Together for Local Integration of Migrants and Refugees in Athens

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This country note presents key policies to promote longer working lives implemented over the past decade in Greece

Enhancing Greek exports is key to jobs and growth

With weak domestic demand and a relatively low export share in the economy there is much potential to raise exports. Despite a recent pick-up Greek export performance deteriorated in the last decade particularly in the service sector and by much more than in the Euro area on average

Estimating the distributional impact of the Greek crisis (2009-2014)

This paper analyses the effects of the Greek crisis on inequality and poverty in 2009-2014 using the micro-simulation model EUROMOD.

Fairly sharing the social impact of the crisis in Greece

Poverty and income inequality have worsened since the onset of the crisis. While the design of fiscal measures has mitigated the burden sharing of fiscal adjustment, as the recession has deepened unemployment has risen, earnings have declined and social tensions have increased.

Raising Education Outcomes in Greece

Despite progress over the past decades, Greece’s educational indicators lag behind those of other OECD countries. PISA scores are low, a large number of tertiary students study abroad, and attainment rates are low at all levels of education, as discussed in this working paper.

OECD LEED Forum on Partnerships and Local Governance: Greece

This site contains a list of key references on Greece. The documentary database includes documents on partnership and local governance that have been published by governments, universities and other organisations.

Raising Greece's Potential Output Growth (Economics Department Working Paper 452)

This working paper assesses the potential economic benefits from structural reforms in Greece.