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.
The National Recovery and Resilience Plan details the use of the €5.925 billion allocated under the Recovery and Resilience Facility. The major part (88%) of the Belgian plan is directly intended to increase the capital stock of the Belgian economy through public investment and aid to private investment. In the short term, at the peak of the plan's stimulus effect, economic activity would be 0.2% higher than in the non-plan scenario. Although the stimulus is temporary, it has long-term effects due to the increase in the public capital stock and the support for R&D activities that improve the profitability of the capital stock of firms and encourage its accumulation. By 2040, GDP is still projected to be 0.1% above non-plan growth path. This estimate does not take into account the reform component of the plan, nor the broader recovery, investment and reform plans announced by the Regions and the federal government, nor the effect of foreign plans on the Belgian economy.
Report - REP 12401 (en), (fr), (nl),
Report - REP_12361 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2021-2026 (Feb.) (fr), (nl),
Planning & Working Papers - WP 05-20 (fr), (fr), (nl), (nl),
This report shows the estimations of potential growth and the output gap for Belgium, based on a technical update of the Federal Planning Bureau’s June 2020 medium-term projections (update published in September 2020). The results are then compared to the European Commission’s Spring 2020 forecasts.
Report - REP_12229 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2020-2025 / Sept. 2020 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - FOR_SHORTTERM2021_12218 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - OPHERMREG12182 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2020-2025 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2021 - June 2020 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2020-2025 - 2 (March) (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2020-2025 (March) (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2020 (Feb.) (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2019-2020 (Sept) (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - OPHERMREG1801 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2019-2024 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2019-2020 - June 2019 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2019-2024 - Feb. 2019 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2019 (Feb.) (fr), (nl),
Report - REP_MINIMA_11760 (mix),
Planning & Working Papers - Working Paper 10-18 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2018-2019 (Sept) (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2018-2023 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2018-2019 - June 2018 (fr), (nl),
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