To promote transparency and provide information, the Federal Planning Bureau regularly publishes the methods and results of its works. The publications are organised in different series, such as Outlooks, Working Papers and Planning Papers. Some reports can be consulted here, along with the Short Term Update newsletters that were published until 2015. You can search our publications by theme, publication type, author and year.
Fact Sheets - Fact Sheet 008 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - FORHERMREG_2022 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - FORVERG202201 (fr), (mix), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2022-2027 (June) (fr), (fr), (mix), (mix), (mix), (nl), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - FOR_DEMO21_UPD_2201 (fr), (nl),
Articles - Article 012 (fr), (nl),
A macro-economic analysis of the activity of multinational groups is of particular interest for economic policy in a country like Belgium with a longstanding tradition of openness to foreign investment. This working paper combines a database of enterprise groups that are active in Belgium with industry-level data from the national accounts to show that multinational groups play an important role in the Belgian economy. Together, foreign affiliates and firms that are part of a Belgian multinational group account for more than 40% of GDP, 25% of total employment and 75% of exports.
Planning & Working Papers - WP 05-22 (fr),
Articles - PEER REVIEW 2021 (en), (en), (en),
In the context of the significant increase in the number of beneficiaries of the health and disability insurance observed over the last 20 years in Belgium, we seek to develop an explanatory model for work incapacity and disability. On the basis of SILC data, we attempt to identify and prioritise the effects of different factors that may influence the probability of employees' transitions between socio-economic statutes, and in particular to and from primary incapacity and disability.
Planning & Working Papers - WP 04-22 (fr),
European Regulation No 691/2011 obliges the member states of the European Union to deliver six environmental economic accounts. 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 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 ETEA for the period 2008-2020.
Reports - REP_ETEA2022_12577 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - FORTRANSP_22 (fr), (nl),
Reports - REP_12622 (fr), (nl),
Reports - REP_Pension_202201 (fr), (nl),
Others - IIS 02 (fr), (nl),
Planning & Working Papers - Planning paper 118 (fr), (nl),
Planning & Working Papers - WP 03-22 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2022-2027 (Feb.) (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2022 (Feb.) (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Flash 002 (fr), (nl),
This Paper describes how the multiregional bottom-up HERMREG model works, using five (regional or federal) economic policy variants and a world demand shock.
Planning & Working Papers - WP 02-22 (fr), (nl),
This Working Paper describes the main characteristics of the multiregional bottom-up model, named HERMREG. This model is used by the Federal Planning Bureau (FPB) and its three regional partners in the HERMREG project (IBSA-BISA, IWEPS, Statistiek Vlaanderen) to analyse the short and medium-term impact of economic policies in the three Belgian regions.
Planning & Working Papers - WP 01-22 (fr), (nl),
This publication is the new version of the report on indicators complementary to GDP, published annually from 2016 to 2021. This renewed report on sustainable development indicators presents a larger number of indicators, covering the period from 1990 to 2020, depending on the availability of the data. In addition, it includes a review of the progress of these indicators towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the UN in 2015. It proposes a specific analysis of the well-being of the population 'Here and now' for Belgium in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and presents the four composite indicators to measure the sustainability of well-being (dimension 'Later'). This set will be completed in the forthcoming updates by composite indicators for the third and last dimension of sustainable development 'Elsewhere'.
Reports - OPREP202201 (fr), (nl),
European Regulation No 691/2011 obliges the member states of the European Union to deliver six environmental economic accounts as of 2017. 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 been delivered since 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 EW-MFA for the period 2008-2019.
Reports - REP_EWMFA2021_12543 (fr), (nl),
In this publication the National Accounts Institute presents the EPEA for the years 2014-2019.
Reports - REP_EPEA2021_12539 (fr), (nl),
In this publication the National Accounts Institute presents the EGSS for the years 2014-2019.
Reports - REP_EGSS2021_12536 (fr), (nl),
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