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How prepared is the Netherlands to withstand a major shock in the short-term? Will people still have a means of livelihood, and how will the most vulnerable groups be affected?

Adjusted for inflation, the average remuneration per employee has decreased after the outbreak of the credit crunch in 2008, although labour productivity increased. This means that the higher labour...

Real disposable income of households in the Netherlands has fallen for the fifth year in a row: by 3.2 percent in 2012.

De Nederlandse economie 2011 (available in Dutch only). This publication gives the most complete possible picture of the economic developments in the Netherlands in 2011.

In March 2012, the volume of private sector investments in tangible fixed assets was nearly 6 percent down on March 2011, after a 4 percent decline in February.

In February 2012, the volume of private sector investments in tangible fixed assets was more than 2 percent up on February 2011, after a 5 percent growth in January.

In January 2012, the volume of private sector investments in tangible fixed assets was nearly 1 percent down on January 2011.

In December 2011, the volume of private sector investments in tangible fixed assets was nearly 3 percent up on December 2010. The increase was somewhat more substantial than in November, when private...

Public debt amounted to 383 billion euro in the second quarter of this year. Although much higher than in the pre-recession era in 2007, the Dutch interest burden declined on an annual basis and is...

Dutch manufacturers realised a turnover growth of 8 percent in June 2011 relative to June 2010. In May, turnover was 24 percent up on one year previously. The working-day and holiday pattern in June...

The average daily output generated by Dutch manufacturing industry was over 2 percent higher in June 2011 than in June 2010. Output growth was the same as in May.

Output generated by the Dutch manufacturing industry was 2.4 percent higher in June 2011 than in June 2010. Production has been higher than one year previously for almost eighteen months now,...

The average daily output generated in Dutch manufacturing industry was nearly 1 percent higher in April 2011 than in April 2010. Production growth slowed down further. Year-on-year production growth...

In crisis year 2009, the Dutch economy contracted more than ever before. The crisis was followed by a period of moderate growth (1.8 percent). The economy bounced back faster than in the early 1980s,...

Following the outbreak of the credit crisis in autumn 2008, Dutch terms of trade initially improved considerably. In the course of 2009, however, they started to deteriorate.

The financial crisis in the autumn of 2008 ended a long period of rising house prices.

In the first six months of 2010, Dutch companies quoted on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange have paid more than 7 billion euro in dividends to their shareholders, an increase by 300 million euro relative...

Non-financial companies in the Netherlands repaid 3.0 billion euro more on outstanding loans than they borrowed in new loans in the first quarter of 2010. The credit crisis and uncertain economic...

The capital owned by Dutch households has grown by 136 billion euro in 2009, the most substantial increase ever recorded in the span of one year. This means that 57 percent of the capital that...

The Dutch government issued bonds and short-term loans worth nearly 240 billion euro on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, about three quarters of newly issued bonds last year. The government requires...

In the third quarter of 2009, the overall disposable income of Dutch households was 3.0 billion euro (i.e. 3.3 percent corrected for inflation) down on one year previously, but their financial...

The financial crisis forced the Dutch government to intervene in the affairs of a number banks and insurance companies at the end of 2008. Among other things, this intervention resulted in a...

In the first quarter of 2009, net profits of non-financial companies amounted to 22.7 billion euro, i.e. 10.6 billion euro down on the first quarter of 2008. For the fifth quarter...

In the second quarter of 2009, just over 71 percent of Dutch companies reported taking measures to combat the effects of the economic recession. This is slightly more than in the first quarter.