Special
Due to structural deficits on the US current account, its net external investment position is close to minus 100% of GDP. In a world, in which China is promoting the international use of the renminbi, this may have consequences for the position of the dollar.
Economic Comment
The German economy is gradually losing momentum. Car sales are recovering, but damage of the third quarter of 2018 has not been repaired yet. Declining IFO indices also point at lower growth, but not a recession.
Special Dutch version
The global economy has been growing at a moderate rate of around 3 per cent for many years. We expect to see similar growth figures in the coming years. But the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States has hugely raised the level of global uncertainty.
Economic Quarterly Report Dutch version
Global economy is growing slowly and problems in the eurozone are not yet solved. Nevertheless, underlying trends offer opportunities for faster growth.
Special Dutch version
Like the rest of the eurozone, the Dutch economy will grow faster in 2015 than it did in the year just past. But growth will remain low, and unemployment high. Low inflation puts the ECB under increasing pressure to start large scale quantitative easing.
Special
Since early 2010, tensions within the Eurozone have risen sharply. What started with a Greek confession that both projections for and past realizations of government debt and deficit statistics were blatantly off the mark, developed into a Euro crisis of systemic proportions.
Special Dutch version
In 2011, we have seen a sluggish continuation of last year's weak recovery from the Great Recession. There are now, however, indications that the economy is once again heading towards a considerable slowdown in growth.
Special
This paper deals with the question whether or not it is a good idea to break up the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU or eurozone).
Special Dutch version
With regard to globalization, we find ourselves at a crossroads in a number of areas. In this special report we focus on the future - even more so than in our economic Outlook for 2010 and beyond - and we describe the dynamic field in which changes to the economic and political world order are currently taking place.
