AMSTERDAM: The Dutch central bank has revised down its economic growth forecast for 2016 from 1.7% to 1.5%. However, growth will reach 1.9% in 2017 and 2% the year after, the central bank said in its latest forecasts.
Unemployment will fall from 6.9% now to 5.7% in 2018 while inflation will rise from 1% this year to 1.8% in two years time, the central bank said. The government’s macro-economic think-tank CPB revised down its economic growth forecasts for 2016 from 2% to 1.8% in March, but said on Friday it would not make a further cut.
The CPB also predicts the economy will grow by 2.1% next year.
