inflation - FDI to the Baltic

2022-04-16

Appreciation is not enough in the fight against inflation

The Bank of Poland takes its main rate to 4.5%, projecting 6.5% this year and 7.5% in 2023. Meanwhile, companies are passing higher costs on to CPI.

2022-04-02

The conflict in Ukraine has created another excuse to blame inflation on oil and natural gas, rather than the increase in the money supply.

2022-03-26

Household consumption will keep sustaining the Polish economic growth o\in 2022, and high producer prices will be passed on to final consumers.

2022-03-19

The Latvian economy already returned to its pre-pandemic level in 2021, only thanks to household consumption, wage growth and savings.

2022-03-12

In Lithuania, the inflation rate reached around 11% in early 2022, and heating bills are expected to increase by 50% to 60%.

2022-03-05

Following a record GDP growth (8.5%) in 2021, the Estonian economy will slow in 2022, still maintaining a strong pace (+4%).

2022-02-12

GDP and consumption booms continue, but price-wage spiral too, as consequence of expansionary economic policy in recent years.

2022-02-05

Riga is facing multiple challenges: energy prices, increasingly unemployed, a domestic market fall, global supply chain disruptions.

2022-01-29

The example of Estonia suggests that the focus on an efficient allocation of resources works more effectively than a stimulus of demand.

2022-01-15

NBP action lags behind other CEE central banks, while authorities pretend the elevated CPI to be a result of external supply shocks.