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November 18, 2024
A few days ago, Bank of Spain released its Financial Stability Report, one of its top publications. Coincidentally, this report came out on the same day Americans elected their new president.
October 21, 2024
Spain faces a fiscal adjustment of around 2.5 percentage points of GDP over the next few years. Its debt and public deficit levels make it vulnerable and must be improved through a more efficient set of public policies.
July 19, 2024
Savings in Colombia have decreased, affecting investment in key sectors. Increasing disposable income and savings is crucial to fostering economic growth. Policies should focus on promoting savings and productive investment.
May 10, 2024
The saving rate in Colombia transitioned from satisfactory levels to finance investment and long-term growth at the end of the first decade of this century and the beginning of the second, to a level that is among the lowest in the world and in its history by 2023: this is the main cause of the current low investment.
March 8, 2024
This year will go from less to more, but it could trend even more positively if investment gains momentum. This hinges on broader factors like the country's medium-term outlook concerning growth, fiscal matters, regulations, and inflation, among others.
March 11, 2019
The GDP of Extremadura would have grown by 2.6% in 2018, 0.5 p.p. above the growth of 2017, and is expected to increase by 2.4% in 2019 and 1.9% in 2020. This will add around thirteen thousand new jobs between the end of 2018 and 2020 and the unemployment rate shall drop to 21.2%, still 5.8 p.p. above the 2007 minimum.
July 3, 2018
In this paper, the productivity of the public sector in Spain is analyzed comparatively. Although the public sector is not the main cause behind the negative behavior of productivity in Spain, there is ample room for improvement to reach the levels of efficiency and effectiveness presented by the rest of the main peers.
November 22, 2016
Budget execution data confirms the expansionary stance of fiscal policy in 2016. The new measures adopted will increase the compliance with the new target by the end of the year. However, reaching the target in 2017 will require additional actions, given the growth forecasts and the temporary impact of some of the measures taken.
December 11, 2015
The general government debt. Spanish remained at 99.3% of GDP at the end of the third quarter. debt reducction of the central government and local governments have offset the regions observed increase. The new financial facility for the regions becomes the main source of funding.
November 24, 2015
The public deficit (excluding local governments) stood at 3.4% of GDP until September, which improves the figure from a year ago. Despite the good performance of the central government, the pace of adjustment does not seem enough to offset the deterioration in Social Security accounts. The probability of failing to meet year-end target is maintained
August 31, 2015
Public deficit in July 2015 improved by 2,4% of GDP in the annual accumulated, .6pp above the registered last year. The slow rate of the recovery of revenues observed until July requires a tight control of public finances, in order to meet the public deficit reduction target by the end of the year.
