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This 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights that key developments in Guatemala since the 2012 Article IV Consultation …
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This paper studies the potential for the export sector to play a more important role in promoting growth in Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (CAPDR) through deeper intra-regional and global trade integration. CAPDR countries have enacted many free trade agreements and other...
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bank. Further strengthening of the financial system is necessary. The 2014 FSAP update found that Guatemala has made …
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This Selected Issues paper estimates both Guatemala’s potential output and output gap using a wide range of econometric techniques. The analysis suggests that Guatemala’s potential output growth is about 3.5 percent for the whole sample period and that the output gap is almost...
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This paper examines the financial strength of central banks in Central America and the Dominican Republic (CADR). Some central banks are working off the effects of intervention in distressed financial institutions during the 1990’s and early 2000’s. Their net income has improved...
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years. To help bring it to the mid-point of the target, Banco Central del Uruguay (BCU) needs to maintain a tightening bias … Uruguay and suggested that strong institutions and macroeconomic stability have helped attract FDI to the secondary and …
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loans to unhedged borrowers and incorporate greater exchange rate stress into the supervisory stress tests. ? Uruguay …
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This paper discusses key findings of the Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes—Data Module for Uruguay …. Uruguay exceeds the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) timeliness requirements for labor market (employment … integrity, based on the mission’s meetings with data users, the Central Bank of Uruguay and National Institute of Statistics …
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Uruguay’s near-term outlook is positive, but with risks and policy challenges. Medium-term challenges include bolstering the economy’s resilience to shocks and fostering productivity growth. Inflation is a priority and monetary policy cannot fight inflation alone; concerted efforts...
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