Assessment of the economic situation on 23 March 2020: The depth of the GDP decline is crucially dependent on the further development of the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, its duration and the adopted and future measures.
The Spring Forecast of Economic Trends 2020 published by IMAD on 12 March 2020 was prepared in the first week of March. On the basis of facts and assumptions known at that time, we projected that economic growth could be 1.5% this year. At the same time, we pointed to high...
Spring forecast 2020: This year economic growth will be significantly lower than projected in the autumn; the forecast is crucially affected by the speed of coronavirus containment and government measures.
The spring forecast was made at the time of significant uncertainties regarding the further spread and duration of the...
Current economic trends from 24 to 28 February 2020: GDP, active and inactive population, prices and others
Economic growth slowed down last year, particularly growth in investment and exports being lower year on year. Amid...
Current economic trend from 17 to 21 February 2020: labour market and wages
Last year’s employment growth mainly reflected the increased hiring of foreign workers, while higher wage growth arose...
National productivity board
IMAD analyses productivity and competitiveness as the national productivity board
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.