Publications

The economy is rapidly recovering, under decreasing numbers of new infections and increasing vaccination coverage. The economy is projected to grow by over 3% in both 2021 and 2022. →

Economic recovery in sight, but coronavirus effects linger on. In the baseline projections the economy is expected to grow by over 2% in 2021 and 3.5% in 2022. →

Economy will recover in 2021, provided coronavirus is under control →

Extension of support package reduces increase in unemployment, but also leads to greater budget deficit. →

Renewed growth in Dutch economy from third quarter onwards, but downturn will reverberate. →

Unprecedented 6% decrease in GDP in 2020, followed by an increase of 3% next year. Unemployment would double, but, although public finances would be severely impacted, they would not enter the danger zone. Great uncertainty. →

March 26, CPB publishes new corona-scenarios (in Dutch). →

Steady underlying growth. →

Economic growth is slowing down in the Netherlands due to the decline in global growth and, to a lesser extent, the issues around nitrogen and PFASs. →

The Dutch current account surplus has increased substantially since the late 90’s, coming mostly from the trade balance in goods. Internationally the surplus is consistently among the top surplus countries, thereby... →