IMF Staff Country Reports

Guatemala: Request for Stand-By Arrangement

April 12, 2002

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Summary

This paper examines Guatemala’s Request for a Stand-By Arrangement (SBA). The authorities are requesting a 12-month SBA in an amount equivalent to SDR 84 million (40 percent of quota) to support an economic program aimed at reducing the fiscal deficit and restructuring the financial system, while sustaining higher outlays on social and basic infrastructure as called for by the Peace Accords. The program assumes an acceleration of real GDP growth to 2.25 percent and a reduction in inflation to a 4–6 percent range.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Economic sectors, Expenditure, External debt, Financial institutions, Financial sector, Public debt, Public sector

Keywords: Central America, Central government position, Central government revenue, Commercial banks, CR, Enforcement measure, Government, Government of Guatemala, ISCR, Public sector, Staff appraisal, Tax ratio

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    88

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2002/080

  • Stock No:

    1GTMEA0012002

  • ISBN:

    9781451816617

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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