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In 2003 the real spendable income of households decreased for the first time in ten years. Corporate profits shrank but there were higher profits in banking. The budget deficit went up, mainly caused...

According to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation has still deteriorated rapidly this month. The economy has entered a stage of deep recession.

Just as in 2009, in 2010 the Netherlands had the second highest level of prosperity in the EU.

The central government deficit over 2003 according to the EMU definition amounts to 14.4 billion euro, i.e. 3.2 percent of the GDP. This is a first estimate based on figures which recently became...

The Dutch economy has become more and more interwoven with global trade in the last thirty years. This means that it has become more vulnerable to declining international demand.

In the period 2000-2014, waste generation in the Dutch economy remained relatively constant at 62 billion kg, while the economy itself grew by almost 16 percent.

In the first three quarters of 2020, exports to Poland grew by 4 percent relative to one year previously.

Due to the economic crisis, the Dutch private sector invested less in knowledge and know-how in 2009 than in 2008. Although the economy showed signs of recovery in 2010, investments in knowledge and...

Climate change mitigation expenditure by central government increased from 900 million euros in 2007 to more than 1.1 billion euros in 2015.

Dutch economic growth was minus 0.7 percent in 2003. The last time the gross domestic product decreased in the space of one year was in 1982. GDP was 0.4 percent down in the fourth quarter of 2003 on...

According to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation has deteriorated further this month.

Real spendable household income fell again in 2004. Enterprises made more profits.

Dutch economic growth came to 1.5 percent in the third quarter of 2004 compared with the same quarter in 2003. The is the largest increase in the volume of gross domestic product (GDP) in the last...

According to the CBS Business Cycle Tracer, the economic situation in February is less favourable than in the previous month again.

The most recent calculations made by Statistics Netherlands indicate that last year’s public deficit and public debt are in fact lower than the first estimate dating back to March suggested. In the...

In 2014 public expenditure on defence declined by 191 million euros to 7.4 billion euros. Dutch defence expenditure has shown a downward trend for the past five years, in spite of a slight increase...

In 2017, raising the statutory pension (AOW) entitlement age resulted in savings of approximately 1.7 billion euros. The situation after raising the entitlement age is compared with the entitlement...