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Monthly evolution of the consumer price index and of the so-called health index, which is used for the price indexation of wages, social benefits and house-rent.
Selon de nouvelles perspectives du Bureau fédéral du Plan, le risque de pauvreté de la population belge devrait baisser jusqu’en 2030 avant d’augmenter par la suite. Des différences existent néanmoins selon les groupes d’âge. La baisse la plus forte du risque de pauvreté est observée dans la population âgée de 55 à 66 ans, et s’explique en partie par la hausse de l’emploi. Le risque de pauvreté des âgés (67 ans et plus), dont la baisse se poursuit jusqu’en 2040, augmente à partir du début des années 2050.
Ce 1er mars 2023, Baudouin Regout prend ses fonctions de Commissaire au Bureau fédéral du Plan, pour un mandat de neuf ans. Il succède à Philippe Donnay, décédé inopinément en octobre 2021.
L’économie belge subit actuellement un ralentissement mais devrait échapper à une récession. Le pic d’inflation devrait être derrière nous. Le pouvoir d’achat se redresse après un recul en 2022. Les créations d’emplois, très importantes l’an dernier, devraient être plus limitées. Ce sont les principales conclusions des nouvelles prévisions économiques du Bureau fédéral du Plan pour 2023.
Le bien-être des jeunes en Belgique se détériore depuis des années déjà et la crise du covid a renforcé le phénomène. Cette détérioration présente des risques pour la société et l’économie, vu que les jeunes constituent les principaux actifs de demain. Sans changement, le bien-être des générations futures se dégradera. C’est notamment ce qui ressort d’un nouveau rapport sur les indicateurs de développement durable du Bureau fédéral du Plan.
La Belgique s’attend en 2022 à une croissance démographique exceptionnelle, de près de 104 000 habitants. Par la suite, cette croissance oscille autour de 31 000 habitants par an jusqu’en 2070. Entre 2022 et 2070, la croissance du nombre d’habitants en Région bruxelloise est quasiment nulle. Par contre, elle demeure soutenue en Flandre (19 %) et modérée en Wallonie (6 %). Ceci ressort des perspectives de population du Bureau fédéral du Plan pour la période 2022-2070.
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On 1 October 2021, the government approved a new five-year Federal Plan for Sustainable Development. This plan is at the heart of federal sustainable development policy and this Working Paper describes the methodology for monitoring its implementation. The results are also presented here for the first time, and this exercise will be repeated every year from this spring onwards. It shows that in just one year, the public services have already reported on the implementation of more than 90% of the measures and that only 30% of the measures are not (yet) in an implementation phase.
Belgium's population growth in 2022 is exceptionally high (+104 000 inhabitants) according to the new demographic projections. In the long term, however, the increase is less dynamic than in the past thirty years. Population growth in Flanders will remain relatively similar to that of recent decades. Wallonia is experiencing significantly lower growth than previously. In Brussels, the population will hardly increase in projection.
The European Commission released on 9 November 2022 a proposal to reform the framework for Member States' fiscal surveillance. The proposed new framework is based on risks to debt sustainability. For Belgium, which is highly exposed to these risks, it would imply a rapid and large-scale fiscal consolidation, and would be no less stringent than the fiscal rules previously in force and suspended since Covid-19. The proposal has not yet been adopted and still needs to be negotiated with the Member States.
MIDAS, the dynamic microsimulation model that focuses on the social sustainability of pensions, has undergone a major revision in recent years to improve the validity of the projections. This Working Paper not only reports on this revision, but also describes some important new modules.
In international agreements, countries are considered responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions linked to their production activities. The carbon footprint provides an alternative assessment of this responsibility by attributing emissions to the country where the goods and services are consumed. This study presents the production-based CO2 emissions and the carbon footprint of the three Belgian regions for the year 2015. According to the results, the carbon footprint exceeds production-based emissions for all three regions. This implies that their contribution to global CO2 emissions is larger from a consumption perspective than from a production perspective.
European Regulation No 691/2011 obliges the member states of the European Union to deliver six environmental economic accounts to Eurostat. The accounts concerned are the three accounts that have been obligatory since 2013, the Environmental Taxes by Economic Activity (ETEA), the Air Emissions Accounts (AEA) and the Economy-Wide Material Flow Accounts (EW-MFA), as well as the three accounts that have to be delivered as of 2017, the Environmental Goods and Services Sector (EGSS), the Environmental Protection Expenditure Accounts (EPEA), and the Physical Energy Flow Accounts (PEFA).
In this publication the National Accounts Institute presents the EPEA for the years 2014-2020.
A new evaluation of public support to R&D in Belgium shows that regional subsidies and the federal partial exemption from payment of the withholding tax for researchers may have helped to increase R&D expenditure in Belgium. The results are less positive for some benefits granted by the federal government through corporate income taxation. As these tax benefits account for the lion's share of the rapidly increasing budgetary costs of public support for R&D, the efficiency of public support could be increased.
There are only eight years left to realise the 17 Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The report presents an analysis of the Federal Plan on Sustainable Development adopted in 2021. It provides a detailed overview of Belgium's current international position and the differences between women and men. Finally, it presents approaches for integrating quantitative elements into sustainable development scenarios.
Monthly evolution of the consumer price index and of the so-called health index, which is used for the price indexation of wages, social benefits and house-rent. (Last update : 02/05/2023)
To evaluate the current state of the Belgian economy, the FPB regularly updates a series of indicators. The indicators concern the macro-economic stance of the economies of Belgium, its three neighbouring countries and the euro area, as well as the transport industry.(Last update : 25/05/2023)
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