Tag Archives: Greece

Getting the facts straight on youth unemployment rates

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Patricia Rogers

Old mistake in today’s article on European responses to austerity measures – here, as reported by Karen Kissane in The Age in Melbourne: Meanwhile, in Greece, a country spiralling into poverty with more than half of its young people unemployed, … Continue reading →

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What you measure and how you measure it – the Greek financial example

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Patricia Rogers

A salutary reminder that just because things are measured precisely (such as money) doesn’t mean that the measurements are valid or useful. As reported by Louise Story, Landon Thomas Jr and Nelson D. Schwartz, in the New York Times on … Continue reading →

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