Consumer Spending Still Under The Cosh

The prospect for a re-balancing in household debt and an improvement in consumer spending remains a long way off in Hungary. Of the five Central European markets covered in our Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region food and drink analysis, Hungary looks the straggler on the consumer spending side (see chart), with the large stock of outstanding debt held by the private sector expected to continue bogging down the economy.

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