2024-02-03
Poland: one apple a day keeps the export awake
The value of the export of apples in January 2022 was $28,000, and a year later it increased by 50 times. The result for the whole of 2023 is almost $5 mln
Tag: export
2024-01-16
Poland: the export decrease weights on the BOP
Last November the downward trend in export goods continued (-8.3% to 12 months prior). The value of goods imports decreased by 13.8%.
2024-01-13
EU transfers are the real value for Lithuania
Last November the surplus on the CAB decreased by 34.3%, where the trade balance suffers alongside exports (services -3.2%).
2024-01-09
Only hope remains when market distortions are even stronger
Market expectations of rapid disinflation remain, but underlying risks come from commodity costs, monetary supply, and trade protectionism.
2023-12-23
The fire looks smaller, but the ashes keep burning
The core inflation is persistently higher than headline, while expansionary fiscal policy increases the pressure and weaken the competitiveness.
2023-12-16
Real growth need focus and free markets, not smoke
The current decline in Estonia’s exports is more a reflection of the weakness in foreign markets and the problems with competitiveness.
2023-11-11
To clinch economic efficiency, reject the chimera of growth
In an open system, economic transformation led by the freedom of private initiative requires to focus on the amelioration of market exchange.
2023-11-04
Election the game changer: from waste to wealth?
The transparency in public finance is key for better controlling public spending: with 5.5-6% of GDP Warsaw has the highest deficit in the EU.
2023-10-28
Domino risk on the rise: it’s a hard-loan life
Estonian banks’ profits have grown fast when the income on loans linked to Euribor increased. Now risks come from loan losses at the window.
2023-10-14
When growth and exports fall, debt raises
Estonia receives more financials from abroad than it is investing: services exports drop (-2% YoY), and the consolidated debt grows +9% YoY.