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Suriname: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

International Monetary Fund

No 2003/357, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This Selected Issues paper for Suriname describes the structure of the financial system, and provides a preliminary assessment of the conditions of the banking system. It highlights the need for a comprehensive public sector reform, targeting both the civil service and the public enterprises, and reviews the recent policy developments and financial sector reforms. It also provides the IMF's projections and estimates for Suriname on central government operations in percent of GDP; central government revenues, grants, and expenditure in billions of guilders and in percent of GDP; summary accounts of the banking system, and so on.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; bank; central bank; exchange rate; small state bank; lending portfolio composition; market structure; spiral hypothesis; return on assets; financial situation; adverse selection; bank licensing; illiquid bank; portfolio composition of the banking system; inflation spiral dynamics; supervision department-central bank; screening criteria; Commercial banks; Civil service; State-owned banks; Bank supervision; Public employment; Caribbean (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55
Date: 2003-11-19
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