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We expect growth in economic activity to pick up in Q2, when the most vulnerable people should have been immunised and international travel can recover more strongly, with growth in the Spanish economy reaching around 6.0% in 2021.
Intuition tells us that a shock like COVID-19 should increase country risk and this has certainly been confirmed by the data. Nevertheless, a longer-lasting impact on country risk should be observed, which is not the case.
Thanks to its resounding success in combating COVID-19, China expects to see its economy grow by 2.0% in this pandemic-filled year, making it the only major economy to end 2020 on a positive note. The future is not written in stone but, in 2020, China took significant steps towards resuming its previous role as the world's leading economy.
Despite the pandemic, household disposable income in the United States not only held up incredibly well but actually grew significantly thanks to strong fiscal policy support. Will the figures for US household consumption in 2021 come as a pleasant surprise?
It is important to continue balancing a more flexible labour market with the safety net of the welfare state to safeguard employment and tackle Spain's markedly dual labour market that puts the most vulnerable at a disadvantage.
The Portuguese banking system faces the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis with a more resilient position and greater room for manoeuvre in dealing with stress situations.
The pandemic is having a huge impact on many aspects of our society, with citizens and businesses increasingly demanding that governments rise to the occasion and take effective action. Are our political systems up to the task?
In this article, we will focus on the policies that must drive the digital transformation of EU Member States and, in particular, the Spanish economy.
«Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria.» J. Templeton
Today marks the publication of the first CaixaBank Sectoral Digitalisation Index, a tool which measures Spanish companies’ degree of digitalisation in relation to the European technological frontier.
Why is it so difficult to carry out reforms? Why, if structural reforms tend to improve the future prospects for the majority of the population, is it so difficult to adopt them? The difficulty lies precisely in two of the aforementioned words, future and majority.
The last few weeks have confirmed that the international economy has turned a corner, and from this point on we will see a recovery begin to take shape. This will be a recovery with special characteristics, given the exceptional nature of both the crisis and the economic policy responses.
Investment is a key variable which determines productive capacity, helps to boost productivity and economic growth, and supports wealth generation in the medium term. The recent trends in Portuguese investment, having performed well since 2016 as well as holding up during the pandemic, are thus very promising.