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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.
Forecasts & Outlook - OPHERMREG1801 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2019-2024 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2019-2020 - June 2019 (fr), (nl),
The Ageing fund, which was set up in 2001 as an instrument to ensure the long-term sustainability of public finances, was abolished in 2016. Its abolition symbolises the transition from a strategy of pre-funding the budgetary cost of ageing, which dominated in the early 2000s, to a strategy based mainly on reforms to the socioeconomic model. The latter was initiated after the global financial crisis and has been firmly stepped up in recent years. This Planning Paper describes the economic and institutional factors behind the shift in sustainability policy, as well as the role of the various stakeholders: the governments of course, but also the High Council of Finance, the European authorities and the Federal Planning Bureau, which has produced long-term analyses and assessments over the past 25 years that have both reflected and helped to shape the pursued policy.
Closed series - Planning paper 117 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2019-2024 - Feb. 2019 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2019 (Feb.) (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),
Reports - OPREP11700 (fr), (nl), (nl),
This report presents a brief disaggregation of the budget balance of the sub-sector “communities and regions” that was published in the March 2018 “2018-2023 Economic Outlook”. The budget balances of the Flemish Community, the French-speaking Community, the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region are presented.
Forecasts & Outlook - OPREP190418 (fr), (nl),
This report constitutes a contribution to the preparation of the new Stability Programme and the new National Reform Programme. It includes the main results of the preliminary version of the “2018-2023 Economic Outlook” to be published in June 2018.
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2018-2023 - March 2018 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2018 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2017-2018 (Sept) (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2017-2022 (fr), (mix), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2017 - June 2017 (fr), (nl),
This study presents a compact model that allows a stylised, yet dynamic reasoning on the main macrofiscal aggregates that are relevant for setting budgetary paths compatible with the structural budget balance requirements of the preventive arm of the Stability and Growth Pact. Some lessons on the conduct of fiscal policy in a reference framework in structural terms can be learned from the simulations provided for illustrative purposes. These simulations show in particular that – under certain conditions relating to the degree to which the budgetary adjustments have a permanent effect on the economic activity and thus on potential GDP – when the feedback effects of adjustments on the underlying macroeconomic environment are left out of consideration, this can be detrimental to the credibility of the considered structural paths.
Working Papers - Working Paper 05-17 (fr), (nl),
This report is an input to the preparation of the new Stability Programme and of the new National Reform Programme (NRP). It presents the assumptions and the main results of the preliminary version of the “Economic Outlook 2017-2022”. The final version of the outlook will be published in June 2017.
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2017-2022 - March 2017 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2017 (fr), (nl),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2016-2017 (Sept) (fr), (nl),
Reports - REP 11379 (mix),
Reports - REP 11301 (mix),
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2016-2017 (June)
Within the framework of the sixth state reform, part of the personal income tax has been regionalised. What’s more, in ESA2010, certain tax expenditures which were partly recorded as negative revenue in ESA95 are now recorded as general government expenditure. These changes motivate a revision of the personal income tax model which is used both for the short and medium term projections made by the FPB and for variant analyses. The new model makes a distinction between the "prepayment" tax (payroll tax and advance payments) and the "enrolment" tax (which fixes the amounts due under regional and local additional levies). It provides a better link to the macroeconomy and explicitly takes into account the schedule of tax enrolment.
Working Papers - Working Paper 04-16 (fr),
This report is an input to the preparation of the new Stability Programme and of the new National Reform Programme. It presents the key assumptions and the main results of the preliminary version of the “Economic Outlook 2016-2021”. The final version of the outlook will be published in May 2016.
Forecasts & Outlook - Economic outlook 2016-2021 - March 2016 (fr), (nl),
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