Belgium Business Forecast Report

Published: November 6 2009 Quarterly   

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The Belgium Business Forecast Report provides essential macroeconomic, political and financial analysis for companies doing business in Belgium.

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Report Description

The Belgium Business Forecast Report helps businesses with Belgian market assessment, strategic planning and decision making to promote growth and profitability in Belgium and is an essential tool for CEOs, Chairmen, Finance Directors/CFOs, Managing Directors, Marketing/Sales Directors with commercial interests in this emerging market.

An influential new analysis of Belgium's political, economic and financial prospects through end-, just published by award-winning forecasters, Business Monitor International.

Key Uses

  • Forecast the pace and stability of Belgium's economic and industry growth through end-
  • Identify and evaluate adverse political and economic trends in Belgium, to facilitate risk mitigation strategies
  • Assess critical shortcomings of Belgium's business environment that pose hidden barriers and costs to corporate profitability
  • Contextualise Belgium's country risks against Europe regional peers using BMI's country comparative risk ratings system
  • Target business opportunities in Belgium's high-growth industry sectors
  • Evaluate external threats to doing business in Belgium, including currency volatility, the commodity price boom and protectionist policies

The Belgium Business Forecast Report by Business Monitor International includes four major sections: Belgium's Political Outlook, Belgium's Economic Outlook, Belgium's Business Environment and Belgium's Key Industry Sectors.

Belgium's Political Outlook:

What are the political risks to doing business in Belgium over the next 10 years?

BMI's Belgium Country Risk Ratings evaluate the short and medium-term threats posed by government instability, adverse economic policy-making, deterioration in the business environment and external shocks.

Belgium Political Outlook Contents

  • SWOT Analysis for the Belgian Market
    Political Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats facing Belgium.
  • Political Stability and Risk Assessment for Belgium
    BMI's Risk Ratings assess explicit short and long-term risks to political stability; latest ratings, rankings and trends for Belgium's risk are compared with Europe regional and global averages.
  • Current Administration and Policy-making in Belgium
    BMI profiles key policy-makers and power-brokers in the Belgian government, assessing threats to the continuity of Belgian economic policy, and likely changes to the business operating environment through end-2018.
  • Belgian Foreign Policy
    BMI examines key trends and shifts in Belgium's foreign relations and alignments with Europe neighbours, the United States and Europe, focusing on external influences.

Key Benefits

  • Benchmark Belgium's risk profile against its neighbours, the global and regional average, allowing easy comparison of risks between key business markets.
  • Identify, evaluate and anticipate political and security risks to the business environment in Belgium, and to your company's current operations and future plans.
  • Gain valuable insights into the Belgian government and policy-making, through BMI's specialist team of analysts and economists, and their exclusive network of private and public sector sources.

Belgium's Economic Outlook:

How will Belgian economic policy-making and performance impact corporate profitability over 2009-18?

BMI provides our fully independent 10-year forecasts for Belgium through end-2018 for more than 35 macroeconomic variables. We evaluate Belgian growth, and also forecast the impact of economic management, including central bank policy, on profitability.

Belgium Economic Outlook Contents

The Belgium Business Forecast Report features explicit BMI economic forecasts for Belgium, with supporting commentary and analysis, for end-2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 set against Belgian government views. Underpinning our Belgium forecasts are key assumptions for the global economy through end-2018, covering growth, inflation, employment, trade and investment, interest and exchange rates in the US, Japan and the Euro-zone.

Coverage of Key Economic Issues in Belgium

  • Economic Activity in Belgium
    Real GDP growth; industrial growth; employment growth; inflation and consumer prices; consumption (indicative wages, retail sales, consumer confidence)
  • Fiscal Policy in Belgium
    Current macroeconomic strategy and implementation policies; government finance (revenue, expenditure, budget balance); tax reforms
  • Monetary Policy in Belgium
    Interest rate trends (bank lending and deposit rates); inflation (retail price inflation, consumer price inflation); exchange rate policy in Belgium; Belgian currency controls; influence of foreign direct investment inflows; exchange rates and foreign exchange reserves
  • Balance of Payments in Belgium
    Merchandise trade (exports, imports, trade balance); current account balance
  • Foreign Direct Investment in Belgium
    Foreign direct investment approvals and inflows; the foreign investment climate
  • Belgian External Debt
    Debt profile (short- and long-term debt; public and private sector exposure)

Key Benefits

  • Rely upon BMI's 100% independent Forecast Scenarios for Belgium and underlying assumptions - we take no advertising and are privately-owned.
  • Exploit the benefits of BMI's comprehensive and reliable macroeconomic Belgium database, sourced and fully maintained by BMI from an extensive network of private sector, government and multilateral contacts.
  • Gain key insights into the current and future direction of Belgian government economic policy

Belgium Business Environment:

How internationally competitive is Belgium's regulatory environment, and what changes can be expected?

BMI assesses levels of transparency, flexibility of labour market, tax burden, development of the banking sector and credit availability, infrastructure and IT,foreign investment regime and trade liberalisation in Belgium.

Belgium Business Environment Contents

  • Belgium's Business Environment Risk Rating with SWOT Analysis
    Short and long-term business environment risk ratings for Belgium, benchmarked against ratings for Europe neighbouring countries.
  • Country Competitiveness for Belgium
    Competitiveness of Belgium's business operating environment in supporting corporate growth and profitability over the 10-year forecast horizon, compared with regional neighbours.

Coverage of Key Business Environment Issues in Belgium's Domestic Environment

  • Transparency, cronyism and corruption; labour market flexibility; corporate tax burden; interest rate levels; access of private sector to lines of credit; sophistication of banking sector and stock market; levels of business confidence; infrastructure and IT
  • Foreign Direct Investment in Belgium
    Analysis of foreign investment regime, foreign ownership laws; attractiveness of business environment to foreign investors; review of major foreign direct investments over the last 24 months, and of strategic sectors attracting most interest
  • Foreign Trade with Belgium
    Analysis of trading environment, government trade policy, liberalisation measures, tariffs and membership of trade areas

Belgium's Key Industry Sectors

Which industry sectors in Belgium will grow fastest, and where are the major investment opportunities in the Belgian market?

BMI targets investment opportunities in Belgium's high growth industries, including automotives, food and drink, infrastructure, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, telecommunications and IT.

Belgium's Key Industry Sectors Contents

BMI's independent 10-year forecasts to end-2018 and industry trend analyses for Belgium's leading industry sectors, including a selection from:

- Automotive - Defence & Security - Food & Drink - Freight Transport - Infrastructure - Oil & Gas - Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare - Telecommunications

Coverage of Belgium's Key Industry Sectors - Belgian Market Overview

  • Size, value and structure of industry; impact of liberalisation and privatisation on sector performance and prospects; friendliness of business environment
  • Latest Developments in Belgium
    Review of latest projects, deals, privatisations, mergers and acquisitions, and implications for sector performance; company rankings for national and multinational companies in Belgium; main industry players by local sales, employee size, market share and main brands, products and services
  • 10-year Industry Forecast for Belgium
    Historic dataset (2003-2007) and BMI forecasts through end-2018, covering headline industry data broken out by sub sector

Key Benefits

  1. Target strategic sector-by-sector opportunities in Belgium's high growth industries, attracting public expenditure and foreign investment; identify key players and competitors driving growth, investment and business opportunities.
  2. Benefit from competitive intelligence on top national and multinational companies operating in Belgium's major industry sectors, including analysis of recent trends in sales and market share, company strategies, product launches and latest deals.

Who buys the Belgium Business Forecast Reports?

The Belgium Business Forecast Report is an essential tool for CEOs, Chairmen, Finance Directors/CFOs, Managing Directors, Marketing/Sales Directors with commercial interests in Belgium.

Our Business Forecast Reports are relied upon by corporates, banks, government departments and multinational organisations around the world.

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