The NIME medium‐term scenario for the world economy presents a macroeconomic scenario for the major areas of the world economy. The scenario builds on the data provided in the European Commission’s November 2009 AMECO database, which accompanied its Autumn 2009 Economic Forecasts. Making use of all available incoming data through to December 24, 2009, the scenario presents a new NIME medium‐term scenario for the world economy. The scenario was prepared using the Bureau’s NIME model of the world economy.
The FPB’s medium‐term projections for the Belgian economy are based on an international economic scenario that is derived from the medium‐term views of various international institutions such as the OECD and the European Commission. The methodological choices underlying the FPB’s forecasts and projections for Belgium are independant of the interest that the Bureau has for pursuing its own international economic scenarios and analyses of the world economy.
The Federal Planning Bureau’s user charter was approved and signed by the Executive Council in June 2010. It covers a number of commitments concerning the term of treatment, office opening hours, publication distribution and the evaluation of services offered.
Monthly evolution of the consumer price index and of the so-called health index, which is used for the price indexation of wages, social benefits and house-rent.
This Working Paper describes the methodological changes in the Modal and Time Choice module of the PLANET model, further to the endogenisation of short see shipping for international transport and the splitting of the Bus-Tram-Metro aggregate into three distinct transport modes.
In the face of increased exposure to global economic pressures in general, and increased wage competition within the EU in particular, calls for framing the free wage negotiations at industry and firm level into a more institutionalised arrangement had grown louder in Belgium in the late 1980s. As a result, the Law of 26 July 1996 on employment and competitiveness came into effect. In a bid to internalise the international economic environment, the law entrenches the biennial wage negotiations between labour unions and employers into a wage norm. It defines anticipated nominal foreign wages as the upper bound for wage negotiations in Belgium.
