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GKI is more pessimistic than the government about growth, inflation and public finances

GKI hasn’t changed its 2-2.5% growth forecast for 2024. However, it has lowered its inflation forecast to 5.5%. This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2024/5 The expected...

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Who pays the ferryman?

On 26 May the Hungarian government announced the biggest-ever sector specific taxes. Retail trade’s share is HUF 60bn from the HUF 800bn government wants to collect this way (another HUF...

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The general government deficit and debt-to-GDP ratio fell last year in the EU

The general government deficit as a share of GDP in the euro area fell to an average of 5.1 percent in 2021 from 7.1 percent in 2020, and the deficit...

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GKI forecasts a slowdown in economic growth

In 2021 the Hungarian economy was moving on a better growth path than the annual budget’s expectation had been. At the same time the balance conditions turned much less favourable...

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GKI raises growth forecast

Thanks to better results in the 4th quarter of 2020 and the relatively favourable changes in business confidence in early 2021, GKI raised its 2021 growth forecast by 0.6 percentage...

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GDP growth slowed down and inflation decelerated as well

he Hungarian economy increased outstandingly in the first half of 2019, by 5.1 per cent, the same rate as last year. Until now, this rate has been the fastest in...

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A very fast growth can be expected in 2018 , it will slow down noticeably next year

While most forecasters project a GDP growth rate of 4-4.5 per cent for 2018, they—with the exception of the government—expect only 3-3.5 per cent for next year. (GKI projects at...

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Economy can grow by 4 percent for this year and for the next

The Hungarian economy will expand by 4 percent this year and for next year – Kovács Árpád, Chairman of the Budgetary Council (KT) said at the conference of the Piac...

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