{"id":553033,"date":"2026-06-22T08:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T05:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=553033"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:14:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:14:25","slug":"edb-says-domestic-demand-drove-belarus-gdp-growth-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/edb-says-domestic-demand-drove-belarus-gdp-growth-in-may","title":{"rendered":"EDB Says Domestic Demand Drove Belarus GDP Growth in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Domestic demand was the main factor behind the acceleration of Belarus&#8217;s GDP growth in May, according to the weekly economic review of member states published by the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB).<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cIn January-May 2026, GDP increased by 0.9% year-on-year, compared with 0.2% year-on-year in January-April. The main support for the economy came from domestic demand,\u201d<\/i> the review said.<\/p>\n<p>EDB analysts noted that retail trade growth accelerated from 6.2% to 7.1%, while fixed capital investment returned to growth.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThis was facilitated by a recovery in capital construction volumes. Amid strong consumer demand and recovering investment activity, we forecast Belarus&#8217;s GDP growth at 1.3% in 2026,\u201d<\/i> the EDB added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic demand was the main factor behind the acceleration of Belarus&#8217;s GDP growth in May, according to the weekly economic review of member states published by the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB). \u201cIn January-May 2026, GDP increased by 0.9% year-on-year, compared with 0.2% year-on-year in January-April. The main support for the economy came from domestic demand,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":493546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a38eee57a77e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"EDB Says Domestic Demand Drove Belarus GDP Growth in May"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}