IMF Staff Country Reports

Guyana: Selected Issues

September 17, 2010

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Guyana: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed December 22, 2024

Summary

The aim is to analyze the main channels of transmission for shocks from the global economy to Guyana and assess their specific spillover magnitudes. The paper documents the transmission channels of external shocks to the real economy and the financial sector, citing magnitudes and risks. It then describes the policy response, including recent directions of monetary and fiscal policies to weather the spillover of external shocks on the domestic economy through the real and trade channel, and provides an outlook for the envisaged recovery of the global economy.

Subject: Agricultural commodities, Commodities, Commodity prices, Exports, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, International trade

Keywords: Agricultural commodities, Commodity export, Commodity output, Commodity price, CR, EU price, EU sugar price preference, Exports, Fiscal stance, Global, ISCR, Preferential price, Remittances flow, Sustainability concern

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    30

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2010/293

  • Stock No:

    1GUYEA2010002

  • ISBN:

    9781455208487

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685