Editorial: Bar raised for economic policy – demographic trend and public debt weigh on national economy

The real-world nature of China’s official gross domestic product reporting has been dubious for years. Although China has long engaged in the practice of setting economic growth targets, it was only in 2012 that hitting a specific number began to be carefully tracked.

Finnish exports to the USSR fell abruptly from 2.4 to 0.8 per cent of GDP in winter 1991. Could this trade collapse be the main culprit for the Finnish Great Depression in 1990s?

COVID-19 has not shaken the operating capacity of the Finnish financial system. However, there is cause for concern in the prolonged growth of household indebtedness, which could threaten Finland’s ability to cope with future economic crises.

Buy-to-let mortgages are becoming more common than ever before and, according to the most recent data, their share of new housing loans stands at 10%. The lion’s share of non-subsidised rental housing is privately owned.