The first issue of Viomichaniki Epitheorissis’ “Industrial Review Special Survey Series” made its debut on December 1991.
A quarterly financial issue in English, containing extensive surveys on individual sectors of the Greek economy, written by Robert McDonald – former correspondent of the BBC and other international media networks & author of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s quarterly Country Report on Greece.
In 1998 it was updated and renamed “Business File Special Survey Series”.
The construction sector, infrastructure-building – and playing with expectations in Greece
The construction sector has been ever since the Fifties a major pillar of the Greek economy and an important contributor to GDP. It also served as a hotbed of expectations.
In the first years after Greece’s joining the Euro area – and thus benefiting of low interest rates – and as the building spree associated with the 2004 Athens Olympic Games was peaking, Bob McDonald described the climate prevailing in Business File in June 2003.
