Suriname: Selected Issues

October 31, 2014

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Suriname: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2014) accessed December 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues Paper carries out an empirical analysis of the effects of policies and external shocks on economic activity in Suriname. The estimates are broadly consistent with prior empirical findings. The results reveal a strong contemporaneous correlation between credit and demand, while the empirical link between exports and demand seems slightly weaker. The results for import demand point to a strong correlation between imports and exports. The export variable is highly significant and explains a large fraction of the total variation in imports. An increase in exports of 1 percent is associated with a 0.61 percent increase in imports.

Subject: Aging, Civil service, Expenditure, Exports, Imports, International trade, Labor, Pension spending, Pensions, Population and demographics

Keywords: Aging, Caribbean, Center, Civil service, CR, Economic risk, Export commodity, Exports, Global, Import demand equation, ISCR, Macro-economic risks, Modeling demand response, Pension spending, Pensions, Revenue multiplier, Risk appetite, Spillover risk, Suriname, WEO commodity price projection

Publication Details

Pages:

36
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2014/317
Stock No:

1SUREA2014002
ISBN:

9781498354042
ISSN:

1934-7685

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