In its The World In 2013 publication, the influential business magazine predicts that Lithuania's GDP per capita will amount to 13,850 US dollars and expects the country's inflation to be 2.7 percent.
The Economist forecasts that the country's fiscal deficit next year will reach 3.7 percent, above the EU's 3-percent limit.
According to the magazine, the new center-left government "will have an anti-austerity tinge, but its hands will be tied by the sluggish economy and tough budgetary commitments required by the country's EU membership."
"Like its predecessor, the new government will be an uncomfortable marriage between disparate political interests, and equally prone to fracturing."
"Weakness in its EU trading partners will weigh on the economy, which will nevertheless grow at close to 3 percent, a rate to be envied elsewhere in Europe," the magazine reports.
