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Belize: 2024 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; and Staff Report

May 15, 2024

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Belize: 2024 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; and Staff Report, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2024) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

The 2024 Article IV Consultation with Belize highlights that real gross domestic product growth and inflation moderated in 2023. Belize’s key policy priorities include raising the primary balance with revenue mobilization and expenditure rationalization to lower public debt to a level that provides sufficient buffers, increasing expenditure in priority areas, adopting growth enhancing structural reforms, and building resilience to climate change and related disasters. These policies would boost growth and make it more inclusive. Boosting medium-term growth requires increasing female labor force participation, enhancing access to affordable credit for small and medium size enterprises, reducing crime, improving the business climate, and adopting a disaster resilience strategy that strengthens structural, financial, and post-disaster resilience and is based on a multi-year macro-fiscal framework. Keeping vulnerable financial institutions under enhanced supervision and requesting recapitalization when needed is important to maintain financial stability. Strengthening the currency peg requires increasing international reserves by reducing public debt, implementing structural reforms and limiting government financing by the Central Bank.

Subject: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Crime, Economic sectors, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, International organization, Monetary policy, Public debt, Public sector, Revenue administration

Keywords: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Caribbean, Central bank financing, Central bank of Belize, Expenditure measure, Financing of the government, Fiscal stance, Global, Money market rate, Public sector

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    72

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2024/124

  • Stock No:

    1BLZEA2024001

  • ISBN:

    9798400276248

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

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