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Lithuanian economists say global economy could be threatened, if the United States' new President Donald Trump started waging trade wars, although the scenario does not seem very likely for now.

Market participants always find explanations why the real estate bubble is not expanding states economist Nerijus Mačiulis. However that it is not happening is displayed not just by various arguments, but also objective metrics.

The new cabinet chancellor Milda Dargužaitė says she has come to reform state governance and is aware that she can expect much resistance. During a Tuesday Delfi conference on December 20, M. Dargužaitė spoke about reducing staff numbers and raising wages in the state sector without requiring extra ...

Lithuanian experts say that Russia's economic downturn and its embargo last year shaved around 1 percentage point off Lithuania's GDP growth, but it mostly affected only a few sectors, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Thursday.

The proposal made by Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union that won the recent parliamentary elections, to postpone the enforcement of the new social model for a year may affect the key structural reform in the future, economists say.

A four-year-long dispute between the Lithuanian government and Russia‘s gas company Gazprom over €1.4 billion sought by Lithuania at Stockholm arbitration court over overcharging for gas supplies has ended in failure of both parties to prove the validity of their claims. To read this article, try a ...

Lithuania should consider introducing a basic income model that could provide €200 to every citizen, changing the current complex and costly social security system, said economist Nerijus Mačiulis.

Lithuania's taxation system is conducive to social inequality with a disproportionate burden falling on labour income, and taxes on capital half that of the European Union average, according to leading economists.

The strength of the country's economy as measured in GDP per capita has the largest impact on happiness in Lithuania and countries around the world, according to the UN.

Gitanas Nausėda, Žygimantas Mauricas and Nerijus Mačiulis, all economists at leading commercial banks in Lithuania, are optimistic about Lithuania's economy in the coming year but they highlighted some of the greatest economic risks Lithuania faces in the coming year - most of them international rat...

Traffic jams in Lithuania's largest cities can't hold a candle to those that torment the residents of the world's largest metropolises, but Lithuanians who live farther away from their workplaces complain about having to spend an hour or more a day in traffic jams during their commutes. What sort of...