Dutch Market Moves? Paolo Pavan Explains Why

Paolo Maria Pavan

Co-Founder Xtroverso

Strategic analyst of the Dutch market, Paolo Maria Pavan delivers exclusive insights for Xtroverso clients.

In 2025 he stepped away to focus on other projects, yet remains available on demand for key assignments.

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When the Numbers Rise Quietly

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Dec 27, 2025

The Netherlands is not a poor country. That is still true. And yet, in 2024, 551,000 people lived below the poverty line. That is 3.1 percent of the population, up from 2.7 percent the year before. Af...

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When More Work Brings Less Reward

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Dec 27, 2025

The latest figures from Statistics Netherlands and Wageningen Economic Research tell a story that will sound familiar to many entrepreneurs, even far beyond the farm. Agricultural income in 2025 is ex...

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The Netherlands Is Getting Older. Your Business Is Already Feeling It.

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Dec 27, 2025

This year marks a quiet turning point. For the first time in our country’s history, there are more people aged 65 and over than people under 20. It did not arrive with a headline-grabbing crisis or a ...

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Netherlands Housing Market, July 2025: Prices Rise 8.6% Year-on-Year

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 22, 2025

Q: Are we back in a housing bubble like before? "Not exactly. Prices are rising again, up 8.6% in July compared to last year, but this isn’t the wild 20% jumps we saw in 2021–2022. Back then it was fr...

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July 2025 Unemployment: What the Numbers Don’t Tell You

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 21, 2025

Q: If the news says unemployment is stuck at 3.8%, why should I care? "Because that number hides what’s really going on. Thousands of people lose their jobs and thousands find new ones every month. It...

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Investments Rise in June, But Who Is Really Investing?

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 20, 2025

June 2025 brought us a headline that looks good at first sight: investments in tangible fixed assets were 8.3 percent higher than a year earlier, according to CBS. A figure that makes us breathe a lit...

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Dutch Manufacturing in Q2 2025: What the Numbers Don’t Tell You

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 19, 2025

Every quarter, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) releases its figures. We see percentages, decimals, neat columns: “turnover down 0.7 percent, industrial sales prices down 0.6 percent.” A small shift, almo...

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Dutch Job Market Q2 2025: Fewer Moves, More Caution

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 15, 2025

Three hundred and five thousand. (305.000) That’s the number of employees who changed employers in the second quarter of 2025. It sounds big, until you notice that, three years earlier, the same figur...

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June’s Dutch Export Numbers: A Modest Rise Amid Germany’s Industrial Slowdown

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 14, 2025

Exports Up, Germany Down: Reading Between the Lines Statistics Netherlands tells us that in June, the volume of Dutch goods exports, adjusted for working days, was up 1.8% compared to June 2024. Machi...

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July’s Dutch Business Numbers: The Calm, the Churn, and the Illusion of Growth

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 13, 2025

In July 2025, 299 companies were declared bankrupt in the Netherlands. That’s 109 fewer than the same month in 2024 , a 27% drop, and 4% fewer than in June. At first glance, this is the kind of number...

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Dutch Inflation Cools to 2.9% in July 2025

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 12, 2025

When I look at the July 2025 inflation figure, 2.9% year-on-year, down from 3.1% in June, I don’t just see a number. I see a pulse. A soft beat in the economic bloodstream telling us the patient, our ...

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The 0.7% That Speaks Volumes

by Paolo Maria Pavan

Aug 11, 2025

Numbers are often treated like weather forecasts, glanced at, maybe discussed, then forgotten. But behind each percentage point, there is a story about how we live, choose, adapt, and sometimes contra...

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