"Not Normal in the Long Run": IW Study: Without Massive Government Spending, GDP Would Have Shrunk
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The German economy is only growing thanks to the investments and consumption expenditures of the state. While private investment is falling domestically, German companies continue to invest billions abroad.
In the last six years, Germany's economy has grown on average by only 0.2 percent per year. However, this increase is calculated solely as a result of government expenditure. Companies are holding back, especially in the construction sector and in the modernization of machinery.
Private economy has not really been growing for years Cologne, 07.10.26. Since Corona, Germany has only been crisising before itself anyway The article IW-Studie: Without state impulses and schools, Germany has been on permanent tour since Corona first appeared on Oiger.
A recent publication by economists reveals the structural weakness of the German economy. For years there has been no growth in the private sector. The government is in debt and, with its constantly growing consumption expenditures and investments, ensures that the gross domestic product in recent years has just been in surplus. [...] The post German private sector has been without growth for years – since 2020 only by the state appeared first o…
Germany has bought its already dire economic growth in recent years with government spending. Companies and private households, taken together, did not contribute to growth on average between 2020 and 2025. This emerges from an unpublished study by the Institute of German Economy (IW), which the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" reports about. That the overall economic performance The contribution IW study: Germany's mini-growth comes from the state alone f…
According to a survey conducted by companies and private households in Germany, on average over the past six years, nothing contributed to economic growth. According to an unpublished study by the Cologne Institute of German Economy (IW), the overall economic performance increased by an average of 0.2 per cent per year between 2020 and 2025. Or, in other words, if the state had not had so much money since 2020, it would have contributed to econo…
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