The upturn in the export and manufacturing sectors is driving the economic recovery in Austria. In the fourth quarter of 2010, real GDP expanded by 0.8 percent compared with the previous quarter and by 2.7 percent compared with a year before. Investment activity is beginning to pick up, however,...

World trade expanded strongly in late 2010 and early 2011. The upswing in the world economy is thus continuing. It is driven, above all, by buoyant economic activity in the Asian emerging economies, where exports, investment, and consumer demand are growing vigorously. Economic activity in the...

Social policy measures and the social security systems in the EU stabilised GDP and employment noticeably during the recent financial and economic crisis. In terms of their size automatic stabilisers were particularly important. Discretionary social policy measures aiming at the stabilisation of...

In the fourth quarter, real GDP expanded by 0.8 percent compared with the previous quarter and by 2.7 percent compared with a year before. Over the whole of 2010, the economy grew by 2 percent. Exports and manufacturing remain the key drivers of the economic recovery. Equipment investment is...

Social policy measures and the social systems markedly mitigated the effects of the severe financial and economic crisis in 2009 and 2010. The largest contribution to the stabilisation resulted from the automatic stabilisers, whose effects vary between countries. On the revenue side they are...

The economic recovery in Austria, driven by exports and manufacturing activity, continued in the autumn; in the third quarter, real GDP rose by 0.9 percent compared with the previous quarter, and by 2.4 percent compared with a year before. However, a self-sustaining pick-up in investment has not...

Since autumn 2009, the world economy has been recovering from the deep recession thanks to the strong stimulus of expansionary fiscal and monetary policies. This year it will grow by 4 percent in real terms (2009: 1 percent). However, the pace of the recovery differs substantially between...

Der Warenexport bildet nach wie vor den Konjunkturmotor, er profitiert von steigender Nachfrage in Westeuropa und verbesserter preisbestimmter Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. Der WIFO-Konjunkturtest für das IV. Quartal 1997 zeigt eine weitere Belebung der exportgetragenen Industriekonjunktur. Deren...

Die Umfragen in Industrie und Bauwirtschaft zeigen eine nur sehr vorsichtige Erholung des Konjunkturklimas. Die Auslandsnachfrage wird von der fehlenden Dynamik der Wirtschaft wichtiger Handelspartner gebremst. Auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zeichnet sich keine Entspannung ab, die Beschäftigung stagniert...