IMF Staff Country Reports

Hungary: 2025 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Hungary

August 29, 2025

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International Monetary Fund. European Dept. "Hungary: 2025 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Hungary", IMF Staff Country Reports 2025, 250 (2025), accessed 12/5/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229020619.002

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Summary

Hungary’s rebound has stalled. A nascent recovery in early 2024 lost
momentum in the second half of the year and output contracted in Q1:2025. Inflation
re-accelerated in Q4:2024 and remains above the 1 percent tolerance band of the 3
percent target. These developments emerged against an already disappointing postpandemic
recovery and long-standing productivity impediments.

Subject: Expenditure, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial sector stability, Inflation, Prices, Public debt

Keywords: audit oversight, control environment, credit program, Eastern Europe, Europe, Financial sector stability, Global, Inflation, integrity authority, safeguards assessment of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank, state presence