Government guarantees relative to GDP rose from 5.09% in 2018 and 4.99% in 2017. In a regional comparison, government guarantees in the Czech Republic came to just 0.16% of GDP, while the rate was 1.18% in Poland 0.01% in Slovakia.
Government guarantees are the most common form of contingent liabilities in EU member states. Hungary's off-balance public-private partnerships (PPPs) stood at the equivalent of 1.13% of GDP in 2019.
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