Paraguay: Selected Issues Paper

International Monetary Fund

No 2015/038, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: This Selected Issues paper analyzes the spillover effects of key external shocks on Paraguay. It presents an overview of Paraguay’s major economic and financial linkages with the rest world, and quantifies the spillover effects of key external factors on the Paraguayan economy, using a vector autoregression approach. The empirical results suggest that global shocks have a significant impact on Paraguay’s growth rate. The paper also highlights that output and exchange rate shocks stemming from Brazil and Argentina are also important, even after controlling for global factors.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; Paraguay; firm; GDP; expenditure; participation cost; FRL deficit ceiling; government effectiveness; intermediation cost; employment data; PFM legal and regulatory frameworks; Informal employment; Informal economy; Credit; Fiscal consolidation; Global; Caribbean; South America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32
Date: 2015-02-20
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