by Nicolae Covrig
Industrial output and retail sales (excluding fuels) showed divergent dynamics over the past year across the CE/SEE and major Euro area economies: very good performance was recorded in Poland and…
In Romania, industrial output recorded a sharp contraction during the lockdown in the Spring of 2020. Subsequently, the recovery has progressed at a slower pace when compared with the other…
For Romania, retail sales of food goods and non-food goods (excluding fuels) rebounded rapidly following the last year’s lockdown. They continued on a solid upward trend subsequently. In terms of…
Producer prices for consumer goods delivered to domestic market increased rapidly during Q1 2021 across most of EU member countries. Two key questions arise:(1) are these large price increases from…
COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has clearly revealed the big structural differences between the economies in the Northern Europe and those in the Southern Europe. So, countries in the Northern Europe showed…
Investments’ performance was quite strong in Romania in the first three quarters of 2020, as increases were recorded both in the public and the private sector as compared with 2019….
Tighter COVID-19 containment measures in place in Q4 2020 should have a lower negative impact on the performance of Romanian economy as compared with those of the other EU member…
In Romania, producer prices for non-durable consumer goods delivered to domestic market increased by 3.8% in November 2020 from November 2019. This was the second fastest advance in the EU….
Economies in Central and South-Eastern Europe should be less negatively impacted than Western economies by new social distancing restrictions that have been introduced in order to curb the increase in…
So much heterogeneity in the performance of European economies during COVID-19 crisis
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