Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Selected Issues
IMF Staff Country Reports, October 5, 2006
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- Published: October 5, 2006
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451826128.002
Export Performance and External Competitiveness
- Analyzes the export performance and external competitiveness in FYR Macedonia.
- Identifies export performance as a central theme for assessing macroeconomic adjustment and growth prospects.
External Account Trends and Vulnerabilities
- Describes the trends in the account balance.
- Reviews external vulnerabilities affecting FYR Macedonia.
Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate (RER)
- Presents different approaches to estimate the equilibrium real exchange rate.
- Compares methodologies for assessing RER to inform competitiveness analysis.
Economic Growth Experience and Prospects
- Reviews economic growth experience and prospects and reveals areas of weakness.
- Assesses factors constraining growth and structural impediments to stronger medium-term performance.
Unemployment and Labor Market
- Discusses many different factors responsible for Macedonia's high unemployment rate.
- Examines structural and cyclical contributors to the unemployment rate as part of labor market diagnostics.
Financial Intermediation and Banking
- Examines the main factors behind the low level of intermediation.
- Reviews banking-sector implications for credit access and financial deepening.
Metadata and Key Publication Facts
- Publication date: October 5, 2006
- Pages: 70
- Volume: 2006
- Issue: 345
- Series: Country Report No. 2006/345
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451826128.002
- Stock No: 1MKDEA2006004
- ISBN: 9781451826128
- ISSN: 1934-7685
- Subjects: Banking, Employment, Foreign exchange, Labor, Production, Real exchange rates, Total factor productivity, Unemployment, Unemployment rate
- Keywords: Baltics, CR, Eastern Europe, Employment, Europe, exchange rate, export share, FYR, FYR Macedonia, Global, growth performance, ISCR, lending rate, Macedonia, Real exchange rates, sector reform, Total factor productivity, Unemployment, Unemployment rate
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