Nicaragua: Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund

No 2012/257, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: The paper is an elaborated report on Nicaragua’s potential economic growth. The challenges and idiosyncratic shocks were immense but the policies of better education, labor contracts, and accomplishments in public investments paved the way for movement of the economy. The external competitiveness and exchange rate assessment also have an important hand. The achievements in the electricity sector and the improvement in reforming the pension system are the prominent aspects. On the whole, the Board considers this growth as a positive trial of development in the global panorama.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; tariff; minimum wage; maquila export; tariff-cost gap; generation cost; reserve coverage; tariff policy; tax shock; Doing Business Indicators rank Nicaragua; Electricity; Tariffs; Output gap; Total factor productivity; Public investment spending; Central America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56
Date: 2012-09-05
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