The Bank of Greece (BoG) on Wednesday announced that the central government cash balance recorded a deficit of 9.378 billion euros over the January-April 2021 period, compared to a deficit of 6.014 billion euros in the corresponding period of 2020.
During this same four-month period, ordinary budget revenues reached to 13.746 billion euros, 13.062 billion euros the corresponding period of last year.
Ordinary budget expenditures were reported as reaching 22.176 billion euros, significantly up from 18.139 billion euros in January-April 2020.
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