Recently, the World Bank projected economic growth of merely 2% this year, below the region average and below Bucharest authorities’ prognosis of 2.5%. Geopolitical conflicts (30%) regain a top position among threats to Romania businesses, followed by inflation (23%) and workforce shortages (23%).
“The economic and business climate will be much influenced in 2025 by the solutions the government will adopt to curb the very wide budgetary gap and implement a credible fiscal consolidation to retain the economy’s appeal for investors,” says Daniel Anghel, Country Managing Partner PwC Romania.
Globally, almost 60% of CEOs expect economic growth in the next 12 months and 46% want to see profitability improvements on the use of GenAI.
While they are upbeat about the global economy, macroeconomic volatility (29%) and inflation (27%) remain the main risks for 2025 mentioned by CEOs globally, but with clear differences between regions.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)