FISCAL DEVELOPMENTS AND OUTLOOK Sample Clauses

FISCAL DEVELOPMENTS AND OUTLOOK. Greece has entered this crisis in a relatively favourable fiscal position, with substantial cash reserves, a strong primary surplus, and low medium-term re-financing needs on its high public debt. The extraordinary fiscal adjustment implemented during and following the programmes has made Greece better equipped to weather the Coronavirus outbreak compared to the situation a decade ago, ahead of the global financial crisis. The budget has been delivering high structural surpluses for several years while meeting or outperforming the fiscal targets. Greece also enjoys cash reserves close to €34 billion, which is an important asset in view of the fallout of revenues and extraordinary spending to tackle the pandemic. These efforts were reflected in 2019 and early-2020 in the financial markets and Greece’s credit ratings, which had been improving steadily. The yield spreads on Greece’s long term bonds had declined to historical lows earlier this year.
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FISCAL DEVELOPMENTS AND OUTLOOK. Based on the preliminary data for 2019, Greece is set to overachieve the primary surplus target of 3.5% of GDP, outperforming its fiscal targets for the fifth year in a row. In view of the emerging fiscal space based on updated revenue and expenditure estimates towards the end of 2019, and following consultation with the European institutions, the authorities distributed €186 million of social benefits to vulnerable households and cleared a pending public service obligation to the Public Power Corporation with an amount of close to €200 million from the ordinary budget rather than from the contingency reserves. The amount of the social dividend was calibrated to safeguard a distance of 0.2% of GDP compared to the fiscal target to cater for possible statistical revisions. The primary surplus is expected to reach around 4% of GDP in 2019 including these payments, above the 3.8% of GDP projected in the 4th enhanced surveillance report, which had not included these measures. The headline surplus is expected to have reached around 1.6% of GDP (6) in 2019, compared with the euro area average deficit of 0.8% of GDP expected in the Commission 2019 autumn forecast. The expected over-performance can be attributed mainly to a better revenue outturn at the end of the year, which is partly due to one-off factors. General government revenues turned out stronger than expected in the previous report, primarily due to higher receipts from social contributions by around 0.2% of GDP, which are partly linked to the start of the 120 instalment scheme, and higher tax revenues by around 0.1% of GDP, after deducting tax refunds. In addition, some one-off repayments contributed to the revenues in December by 0.1% of GDP, inter alia from the European Investment Bank. Net of the end-year payments, expenditure would have been lower by 0.2% of GDP compared to the forecast in November 2019, mainly on account of lower consumption expenditure, which comes on top of the sizeable reduction in spending ceilings in 2019 implemented together with the 2020 budget. While having a broadly neutral impact on the balance, general government investment was by 1.1% of GDP lower than initially planned, marking 2019 as yet another year of very sizeable underspending. Based on preliminary data, general government investment expenditure is estimated to be lower by 0.6% of GDP compared to the authorities’ latest projection from November 2019. However, the observed under-execution comes on top of the downw...

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