Press releases

The Temporary Support Scheme for Self-Employed Persons (Tozo) supported self-employed entrepreneurs during the coronavirus crisis. This is the conclusion from a CPB study. Due to uncertainty and contact-restricting... →

Eight political parties had the economic consequences of their election manifestos calculated by CPB. The results have been published today. ‘Charted Choices 2025-2028’ provides an overview of the budgetary and... →

The plans in the Budget Memorandum for 2024 presented by the demissionary cabinet on Budget Day lead to an improvement in the purchasing power of people on lower incomes. This prevents an increase in the number of... →

The economy is expected to grow by 0.7% in 2023 and 1.4% in 2024. After falling sharply, purchasing power is set to recover by 1.9% in 2024 due to wage growth. Without supplementary policy measures, the number of... →

Firms have absorbed the higher costs for gas and electricity with energy savings and price increases for customers. The higher energy prices are expected to lead to only a limited number of additional loss-making firms.... →

Entrepreneurs seem to be adapting their business operations to climate policy, instead of relocating their business to countries without or with less stringent climate policies. There is little to no evidence that... →

Purchasing power will remain broadly unchanged on average this year and will rise by 2.0% next year. At the same time, poverty is set to increase next year. This is according to the latest projections by CPB Netherlands... →

In December 2022, world trade decreased with 0.9% compared to November 2022, according to the monthly World Trade Monitor of the CPB. Over the whole of 2022, world trade has grown by 3.... →