Republic of Latvia: Selected Issues

May 4, 2015

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Republic of Latvia: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2015) accessed December 22, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines the prospects for Latvia continuing to rapidly reduce its distance from the productivity frontier. It looks at the empirical record of countries that have in the past attained a similar relative level of income to that of Latvia at present, to gauge the plausibility of the forecast for Latvia’s medium term GDP growth of about 4 percent per year. It highlights that more than one-third of the countries reaching a similar stage of development managed to sustain higher subsequent growth. The paper also confirms the importance of investment and structural reforms for Latvia’s future convergence, using a sector-level analysis.

Subject: Employment, Labor, Labor productivity, Migration, Population and demographics, Production, Productivity

Keywords: Africa, Baltics, CR, Eastern Europe, Employment, Employment growth, Employment ratio, Europe, Extent emigration, Global, Growth decomposition, ISCR, Labor productivity, Migration, Multifactor productivity convergence, Productivity, Productivity frontier

Publication Details

Pages:

38
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2015/111
Stock No:

1LVAEA2015002
ISBN:

9781475535525
ISSN:

1934-7685

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