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 trade balance: looking back

Trade deficits are one of the constant characteristics of the Greek economy; even when exports manage to reach a healthy growth rate, it is a matter of time before one sees the rate of import growth outstrip then. Migrant remittances in earlier times, EU funds more recently were called upon to close the gap: a look to where things stood back in 1997 bring quite a feeling of “déjà vu” to the surface. (From Industrial Review, March 1997 issue)