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Belize Selected Issues

This Selected Issues paper on Belize reviews the external competitiveness, balance sheet currency mismatch, and public sector debt. Belize is a small, open economy and highly dependent on external trade. Real wages in the private sector have increased only slightly. Belize’s exports of commodities g...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2005
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
Subjects:
Depository Institutions
Commercial Banks
Public Debt
Banks
Farm Produce
Public Finance & Taxation
Banks And Banking
Financial Institutions
Debt Management
Micro Finance Institutions
Debts, Public
Debt
Trade: General
Exports And Imports
Mortgages
International Lending And Debt Problems
International Economics
Agriculture: General
External Debt
Debts, External
Sovereign Debt
Investments: Commodities
Commodities
International Trade
Exports
Banking
Agricultural Commodities
Investment & Securities
Public Finance
Belize
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This Selected Issues paper on Belize reviews the external competitiveness, balance sheet currency mismatch, and public sector debt. Belize is a small, open economy and highly dependent on external trade. Real wages in the private sector have increased only slightly. Belize’s exports of commodities grew strongly in volume terms during the last 10 years. The currency mismatch and liquidity pressures point to a growing exchange rate risk. Belize would have to maintain a significant primary fiscal surplus to reduce indebtedness over the medium term
Physical Description:75 pages
ISBN:9781451805529

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