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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.
Working Papers - Working Paper 04-02 (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Forecasts 2002 C (fr), (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 03-02 (fr), (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 07-01 (en),
After a period of rapid expansion during 1999 and the first half of 2000, a clear worldwide slowdown was recorded in the second half of 2000. Current forecasts are assuming that world trade will recover in the second half of 2001. In line with this international scenario (lower growth, higher inflation), economic growth in Belgium has been revised downwards to 2.4% (compared to 2.8% in the economic budget last February). GDP growth next year should reach 2.8%, driven by stronger growth in exports and domestic demand.
In addition to the impact of the recovery of international trade, activity in 2002 should be fuelled by various internal factors boosting private consumption, such as wage and employment increases, the indexation of wages and social benefits above consumer price growth and personal income tax reform.
Domestic employment should rise by around 40,000 persons in 2001 and 45,000 in 2002, leading to a new improvement in the employment rate. Nevertheless, the impact on unemployment will be smaller, given the forecast increase in the labour force.
Inflation should be significantly lower in 2002 than in 2001 (1.5% as against 2.4% for consumer prices), thanks to a small decrease in energy prices, the stabilization of the euro exchange rate and lower prices for food products. The impact on inflation of the conversion of prices into euro is uncertain and any changes, should mainly be seen in 2001.
Closed series - Short Term Update 03-01 (en),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Forecasts 2002 (fr), (nl),
Other publications - Benchmarking (en),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Outlook 2001-2006 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Forecasts 2001 C (fr), (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 02-01 (fr),
Working Papers - Working Paper 06-00 (fr),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Forecasts 2001 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Outlook 2000-2005 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Forecasts 2000 C (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Forecasts 2000 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Outlook 1999-2004 A (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Outlook 1999-2004 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Forecasts 1999 C (fr), (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 07-98 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Forecasts 1999 (fr), (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 05-98 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Outlook 1998-2003 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic Forecasts 1998 C (fr), (nl),
Working Papers - Working Paper 04-97 (fr),
Closed series - Planning Paper 80 (fr), (nl),