The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has confirmed its 3.5 percent GDP growth forecast for Serbia for 2018.
Source: B92, Tanjug
In the revised World Economic Outlook report for April 2018, the IMF predicts the same growth rate for 2019, and inflation of 2.7 percent in 2018 and 3 percent in 2019.
The unemployment rate is projected to fall to 14 percent at the end of 2019, from 14.6 percent in 2017.
For the first time since 2005, a fiscal surplus will be achieved and public debt will be in a sharp decline again after ten years, Fiscal Council saysd.
Current and planned investments in Nis and the Nisava District amount to EUR 2.7 billion - "and there's no dilemma at all about that," says Zorana Mihajlovic.
Net average monthly wage in Serbia was RSD 47,819 (EUR 404) in February - 4.5 percent less than the month before in nominal, and 4.8 percent less in real terms.
Germany's Leoni company will open a new production facility in Nis, southern Serbia, on Wednesday, employing 1,125 workers.
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Rasim Ljajic says the restructuring of Croatia's failed giant Agrokor is "in its final phase."
Serbia will ban the use of thin plastic bags and introduce mandatory charging for biodegradable ones, the Ministry of Environmental Protection has announced.
A new Henkel plant that will produce the company's Somat dishwasher gel tabs opened in Krusevac on Wednesday.
According to President Aleksandar Vucic, the unemployment rate in Serbia has gone down to "12 or 13 percent" from 26 percent.
