Hungarian economy will skyrocket in 2024?
Economic growth may slow to 1.5 percent this year, but Hungary can avoid recession, and GDP might jump as high as 4 percent in 2024, the economy development minister told the weekly Mandiner.
Last year was “one of the hardest since the change of regime” in 1989, with skyrocketing energy prices accounting for 10 percent of GDP, presenting a bill of 10 billion euros, Márton Nagy said.
Growth in 2023 may be boosted by subsidised loans for companies, and the growing performance of the tourism, industry and agricultural sectors, he said. Consumption is also expected to grow, he added.
Inflation is expected to peak above 25 percent early in the year and fall into single digits by the end of 2023, he said. Price caps on basic foods will be phased out if inflation falls steeply by April, he said.
Regarding monetary policy, Nagy, a former deputy governor of the National Bank of Hungary (NBH), said the current 18 percent interest rate is one of the highest in the world. Only war-torn Ukraine and “countries like Ghana, Sudan, Venezuela, Argentina and Zimbabwe” exceed that rate, he said.
Even considering the 50 basis point drop in the yield curve the market has priced in for the coming month, real yields will still be “well above 5 percent” if inflation falls into the single digits by year-end, he added.
Regarding the government’s purchase telecommunications company Vodafone, Nagy said government involvement in the strategic sector was a national interest. Public IT company 4iG has acquired a 51 percent share in Vodafone Magyarorszag, and state-run Corvinus International Investment 49 percent, he noted.
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Source: MTI
2 Comments
What’s FACTUALY in his opinions or “Driven” by Propaganda.
The Minister, went to a muchly different University of Economics than I.
When analysing what the Ministers is PREDICTING – that could occur with-in the – what we are living with and in, dealing to manage our lives and plan our future around, being an economy in Hungary that is capitulating.
Explanations of the HUNGONOUS turn around – the picture painted by this Minister of the Orban Government, hinges on FALSENESS and exciting Civilians, when factually, these opinions – that lack fundamentals in Economics – lacking greatly in substance of fact, and will not occur, in the Ministers opinion – the PICTURE he Paints – within the capitulating Hungarian Economy.
1.5 to 4.0 p.c is really a “skyrocket”.
With all the recent talk coming from our PM (eg. “definitely not” and “NATO may officially enter the war in Ukraine this spring”) , it’s definitely not “beginning to look like Christmas” for our economy any time soon, not even next year.