IMF Staff Country Reports

Paraguay: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

April 10, 2000

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Paraguay: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed December 23, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the background, stages and developments, and estimation of the direct costs of Paraguay's banking crisis. The paper provides the estimates on the size and evolution of the informal sector, and examines the extent to which the national accounts capture informal activity. The study also estimates the potential output and total factor productivity by examining trends in output, investment, and population growth as well as the direction and size of fiscal impulse on its economy. The paper also provides a statistical appendix report of Paraguay.

Subject: Banking, Economic sectors, Financial institutions, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Loans, National accounts, Potential output, Production, Public sector

Keywords: Bank, Bank closure, CR, Discretionary expenditure, Fiscal stance, GDP, GDP estimate, Global, Investment data, ISCR, Loans, Paraguay, Potential GDP growth, Potential output, Public sector, Trend factor productivity, Wage outlay

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    71

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2000/051

  • Stock No:

    1PRYEA0012000

  • ISBN:

    9781451832365

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685