Macau’s gross domestic product (GDP) shrank by 2.1 percent year on year in real terms last year, an improvement from the 21.5 percent drop in 2015, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) said on Thursday.
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The Economic Services Bureau (DSE) has finished a study on how Macau should reposition itself in the development of its industrial sector, according to a statement from the bureau on Sunday.
The Gross Domestic Product of Macau (GDP) is expected to return to growth in 2017, the year in which the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) expects a rate of 5.2 per cent, which will rise one-tenth of a percentage point to 5.3 per cent in 2018 according to the latest report on the territory.
Macau’s economy in the third quarter contracted a fifth straight quarter as the world’s largest gambling hub was pummelled by an economic slowdown in the mainland and the central government’s attack on corruption which scared off high-rollers. The city, which relies on gamblers for about two thirds of economic output, saw its gross domestic product […]
Macau’s economic output tumbled 24.5 percent in real terms in the first quarter, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) announced on Thursday, as a widening graft crackdown and slowing economy in the mainland keeps high rollers away from the city’s casinos. The fall in gross domestic product (GDP) from a year earlier was the deepest […]
Macau’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell 0.4 percent in real terms last year, the first annual drop since the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) in 1999, according to figures released by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) on Friday. In the fourth quarter of last year, GDP was down 17.2 percent year-on-year […]
The Macau economy is expected to contract by 4.0 percent in 2015 and return to positive growth in 2016 with a rate of 8.0 percent, after ending 2014 with growth of just 0.7 percent, according to forecasts from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The EIU analysts explain this year’s low economic growth and the fall […]
Macau’s gross domestic product decreased by 2.1 percent year-on-year in real terms in the third quarter, the first negative quarterly growth in five years, the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) has announced. According to a DSEC statement, the economic downturn in the third quarter “was triggered by a substantial decline in exports of services, of […]