Romania: Fiscal Situation Improves

Politics ♦ Published: November 27, 2012; 14:46 ♦ (Vindobona)

“Public budget deficit amounted to only 1.2% of GDP at the end of September, which was better than we had expected.” Raiffeisen Research states.

Romania: Fiscal Situation Improves / Picture: © Vindobona.org

Based on national cash methodology (used also by IMF programs), public budget deficit for Jan-Sep amounted to only RON 7.2 bn or 1.2% of the full year’s official GDP projection. This was substantially below the targets agreed with the IMF for end-September (RON 9bn when excluding the PNDI program, or RON 9.7 bn when including the PNDI program). “In essence, the deficit in Q3 was…