Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-05-10
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[01] Gov't: IMD report confirms upbeat economic course
[01] Gov't: IMD report confirms upbeat economic course
An International Institute for Management Development (IMD) report
confirms the positive course of the Greek economy and its
competitiveness, Development Minister Dimitris Sioufas said on
Thursday.
Commenting on a report on international competitiveness, the minister
stressed that after five years of continuous decline, Greece managed to
reverse this slide in 2006 and to maintain its position in this year's
list, while it improved significant indexes of the report and more
particularly a 10-position jump of the Government Efficiency category.
Sioufas said the IMD report verified the government's efforts over the
last three years to bring its public finances in order.
The report said that Greece maintained its 36th position, amongst 55
countries, in this year's list, improved its total points by 6.06 pct
and saw its Business Efficiency category rise from 40th to the 35th
place this year.
The country suffered slight losses in the Economic Efficiency category
(from the 43rd to the 46th position) and Infrastructure (from 29th to
the 34th place).
Caption: ANA-MPA file photo of Dimitris Sioufas.
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