This Selected Issues paper on Samoa reports that remittances are the main source of foreign exchange to the Samoan …

maintained surpluses despite the pandemic, helped by buoyant tax revenue-including due to improvements in tax administration …

This 2005 Article IV Consultation for Samoa reports that the combination of sound economic management and structural … commitment to sound macroeconomic and reform policies, Samoa became one of the best managed economies in the Pacific Island … region. The level of public debt has steadily declined from more than 90 percent to about 50 percent. Samoa also made …

Samoa has suffered severe social and economic shocks. The outlook is challenging and subject to considerable …

This paper reviews economic developments in Western Samoa during 1990–94. Economic growth resumed in 1993, led by a …

two consecutive years of contraction, real GDP has expanded by 2 percent in 2010–11. The Central Bank of Samoa has … lift Samoa’s economic growth and to ensure financial stability. Considerable progress has been made in tapping customary …

This paper discusses a request from Samoa's authorities for a Disbursement Under the Rapid-Access Component of the … Exogenous Shocks Facility (ESF-RAC). The tsunami that hit Samoa on September 29, 2009 has undercut Samoa’s economic resilience … request on Samoa’s low public debt and credible commitment to sound macroeconomic policies …