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February 17, 2025
GDP grew 1.7% in 2024, led by domestic demand (+2.2%). Private consumption (1.6%) was driven by a rebound in durable goods and services, while fixed investment (3.0%) grew due to machinery, equipment, and civil works. In 2025, growth is expected at 2.5%, with better financial conditions but fiscal and global risks.
February 17, 2025
The parliamentary process should amend the proposal so that the reduction of the workday happens gradually, with increases in productivity and through collective bargaining, minimizing distortions and avoiding additional inefficiencies in the labor market.
February 14, 2025
The labor market in 2024 performed well in terms of job creation and showed an acceleration in the last three months. The average unemployment rate was 10.2% in 2024, the same as in 2023. However, in the last quarter, it dropped to 9.7% (seasonally adjusted), in line with the increase in job creation.
February 5, 2025
In 2024, the Spanish economy showed positive dynamics driven by domestic consumption and tourism, which also introduced heterogeneity in regional developments. As a result, Mediterranean regions and the islands were generally the ones leading growth once again last year.
January 29, 2025
Activity grew again by 0.8% q/q in 4Q24, driven by domestic demand despite weak net external demand. GDP growth was supported by an increase in hours worked, as productivity declined. Overall, GDP expanded by 3.2% in 2024, exceeding forecasts.
January 20, 2025
Economic growth, inequality, and zero-sum thinking form a triangle that has shaped societies over the years. The historical transition from a subsistence economy to one of sustained growth has transformed social perceptions of wealth and how it is distributed.
December 26, 2024
With Christmas and the start of the new year nearly upon us, it is always good to look back and review what has happened over the last 12 months. My goal here is to do a mea culpa on where we got things wrong when we laid out our economic scenario a year ago.
December 9, 2024
It may well be negative in the short run, although it should be cushioned by the relatively low direct exposure of the Spanish economy to trade with the US. In the medium term, the outcome will be determined by the goals set by the new US President and the economic policy responses, both in the eurozone and in Spain.
December 6, 2024
In a context of extinction of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development (Coneval), as the agency in charge of measuring poverty among other evaluation activities, this note presents some of the results of labor poverty as of the third quarter of 2024 published last December 3.
December 3, 2024
Book product of a collaboration between the National Population Council (CONAPO), BBVA Foundation and BBVA Research. This twelfth edition presents in ten chapters the main data and indicators on migration, human mobility and remittances on a regional and global scale, with emphasis on Mexico.
