01.14.2015

The World Bank estimates Romania’s economy will grow 2.9% in 2015, a downward revision from its previous forecast, but is expected to accelerate to 3.2% next year. more

10.29.2014

Romania climbed two spots and ranks 48th in World Bank’s Doing Business 2015 report, which analyzes the ease of running a business in 189 countries, and is outranked by Rwanda, Bulgaria, and more

10.24.2014

The central bank and the Finance Ministry have only EUR2.2 billion left to repay of the loan Romania took from the International Monetary Fund in 2009, with the former repaying most of this amount, more

07.29.2014

The World Bank will provide technical assistance to Romania’s Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF), based on a memorandum signed Tuesday. more

06.17.2014

Romania’s Finance Ministry has borrowed EUR1 billion from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to finance fiscal policies and healthcare projects, the ministry said in a more

06.11.2014

The World Bank has revised upward its forecast on Romanian economic growth to 2.8% in 2014 and 3.2% in 2015, the bank said in its latest global economic prospects report. more

05.23.2014

The Board of Directors of the World Bank Group has approved a EUR750 million budget support loan (DPL) for Romania, which targets the modernization of public expenditures and improvement in the more

04.04.2014

Romania needs to stimulate its economic growth to reach rates of 5% to 6% a year in order to converge with the living standards of the European Union. It also needs to continue structural reforms in more

03.31.2014

The World Bank will extend a credit line to Romania for development projects of EUR1 billion a year for the period 2014-2017, based on a new partnership strategy to be approved by the bank's board on more

03.28.2014

The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved Friday a $338.8 million loan to Romania to improve the country’s healthcare infrastructure, the bank said in a statement. more

02.21.2014

Romanians pay the highest social security contributions in the Central and Eastern Europe, a report from the World Bank showed Friday. more

02.11.2014

International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s investment arm, will acquire a stake in Romanian information systems integration company Teamnet, according to an announcement posted on the more

01.15.2014

The World Bank estimates the Romanian economy will grow by 2.5% in 2014, after a similar increase last year, according to the institution’s latest Global Economic Prospects report, released more

11.20.2013

A company in Romania makes 39 payments to the state each year as taxes and contributions, triple compared to the EU average, for which it wastes 200, and the bulk of the fiscal burden lays on labor, more

11.05.2013

Romania has asked for a new EUR1 billion development policy loan from the World Bank, part of a larger EUR4 billion program aimed at financing the country’s budget deficit, Finance Minister Daniel more

11.04.2013

The three major rating agencies Standard & Poor’s (S&P), Moody’s and Fitch have not improved their assessment of Romania’s country risk, despite the fact that the country has been praised as more

10.29.2013

Romania fell one spot and is ranked 73rd in the World Bank’s Doing Business 2014 report, which analyzes the ease of running a business in 189 countries. more

10.23.2013

Romania drew Wednesday EUR700 million of its EUR1 billion loan signed with the World Bank Group in 2012, Minister-delegate for Budget Liviu Voinea said in a statement. more

10.03.2013

Romania will receive $3.6 billion in remittances from Romanians working abroad, similar to last year’s estimate and much lower than the remittance flows received before the crisis, according to a more

06.28.2013

Romania’s EUR20 billion rescue package is now eating into the funding that should have gone to highways, railways and hospitals. The central bank and the Finance Ministry got an actual amount of more

06.13.2013

The World Bank forecasts Romania’s gross domestic product will increase 1.7% in 2013, followed by a 2.2% growth next year, according to the bank’s Global Economic Prospects report published more

06.10.2013

The agriculture sector, which generates 6% to 7% of Romania's gross domestic product, has a density of only 20 tractors per 1,000 farmers. This is seventy times lower than France, the European more

05.30.2013

The World Bank has appointed Elisabetta Capannelli as the new country manager for Romania, replacing Francois Rantrua, the international lender said in a statement Thursday. more

05.17.2013

Romanian lender Banca Transilvania (TLV.RO) raised EUR29.4 million in a convertible bond sale, after International Finance Corporation subscribed bonds worth EUR18.9 million in the second stage of the more

05.14.2013

Romania has been Europe’s top investor in public sector projects in terms of GDP share over the past 10 years, but its investment-to-performance ratio is far from satisfactory, a senior economist more