Productivity Report 2019
In 2018 IMAD started to carry out the tasks of a national productivity board, one of the key ones being the preparation of an annual productivity report. Productivity analyses have been part of IMAD’s regular publications for many years, but this year we published them separately...
Current economic trends from 18 to 22 November 2019: labour market, Slovenian industrial producer prices
Growth in employment is easing, but remains considerable and arises mainly from the hiring of foreigners. The total...
Debate: The challenges of dealing with labour shortages
Demographic changes are reducing the share of the population in the 20–64 age group in Slovenia, which makes it...
Export sector competitiveness
Economic growth in Slovenia’s trading partners will be lower than in previous years. Export growth will therefore be slowing, except this year when it is being strongly driven by increased re-exports of pharmaceutical products and oil. The current account surplus will decline somewhat relative to GDP.
IMAD
The Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development of the Republic of Slovenia is an independent government office.
The Institute performs the following tasks:
- it monitors and analyses current trends and development in its economic, social and environmental dimensions;
- it monitors and analyses the achieving of the development objectives of the country;
- it prepares macroeconomic forecasts and other expert groundwork that serve as the basis for budgetary planning and formulating economic policy measures;
- it analyses productivity and competitiveness as the national productivity board;
- it carries out research work.