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... ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan TODAY'S MARKET PULSE Read more
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... ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan TODAY'S MARKET PULSE Read more
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 ... ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan TODAY'S MARKET PULSE Read more
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... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan REAL ESTATE Read more
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... DUTCH ECONOMY ES HR IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
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... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
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... DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
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... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
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... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
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... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
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 ... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more
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... AUDIO DUTCH ECONOMY ES IT NL Paolo Maria Pavan Read more