{"id":6665,"date":"2018-04-23T06:11:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T10:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=6dd5f8d6694215850f3ff2264e53183a"},"modified":"2018-04-23T06:11:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T10:11:01","slug":"greece-beats-its-budget-target-for-3rd-year-debt-edges-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/23\/greece-beats-its-budget-target-for-3rd-year-debt-edges-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece beats its budget target for 3rd year, debt edges down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Greece &#8212; Greece has beaten its bailout budget targets for a third successive year and eased its massive debt burden by a fraction as the country prepares to exit its international rescue program in four months.<\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s independent statistics agency on Monday reported long-awaited data for 2017 that will affect ongoing negotiations between Athens and creditors on the terms of Greece&#8217;s exit.<\/p>\n<p>The agency reported that the 2017 primary budget surplus &#8212; the balance before debt repayment is included&#8211; stood at 4 per cent, while the national debt stood at 178.6 per cent of gross domestic product, down from 180.8 the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Economic output was 177.7 billion euros ($218 billion), confirming a return to growth, but still almost a billion euros lower that annual output in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Greece &mdash; Greece has beaten its bailout budget targets for a third successive year and eased its massive debt burden by a fraction as the country prepares to exit its international rescue program in four months. The country&rsquo;s independent statistics agency on Monday reported long-awaited data for 2017 that will affect ongoing negotiations between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6666,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6665\/revisions\/6666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}