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30 kwi 2024 · The Spanish economy’s main structural problem is low productivity. Productivity per hour worked in Spain has stayed between 10% and 15% below that of the euro area since 2008. What is behind this low productivity?
21 gru 2022 · Spain faces a rocky 2023 with sluggish economic growth and job creation, high but slowing inflation (6.8% year-on-year in November), soaring electricity bills amid the global energy crunch and water shortages in some areas due to drought.
8 lis 2021 · The country, the worst hit in Europe by the economic impact of the crisis last year, is making much less progress than other eurozone members in regaining pre-pandemic levels of output.
16 paź 2020 · Spain ended 2019, a boom year, with a public deficit of 2.8% of GDP and a public debt of close to 100%. Nobody in the government was anticipating a global pandemic, and spending...
The latest projections serve to illustrate the improved global economic situation. For example, following a significant decline in global GDP in 2020 (down 3.1%), the most recent forecasts from the International Monetary Fund indicate robust growth in 2021 (5.9%) and 2022 (4.9%).
26 sty 2023 · GDP and consumption have been slow to return to pre-pandemic levels. With wage growth subdued, inflation has bitten into real incomes. The prices of prominent products are up by more than...
3 mar 2022 · This Observatory assesses the factors explaining the behavior of the Spanish economy between the first quarter of 2020 and the last quarter of 2021, and estimates the structural shocks behind the growth of GDP per working-age person (WAP), the GDP deflator and real wages.
