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Panama: Request for an Arrangement Under the Precautionary and Liquidity Line-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Panama

February 3, 2021

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Panama: Request for an Arrangement Under the Precautionary and Liquidity Line-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Panama, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed September 20, 2024

Summary

While Panama has been the most dynamic economy in Latin America over the last three decades (growing 6 percent on average), its strength is being tested by the COVID-19 global pandemic. Panama is a service-based economy that is highly integrated in the world economy and exposed to extreme shocks during the pandemic.

Subject: COVID-19, Credit, Debt service, External debt, Health, Money, Public debt

Keywords: Address COVID-19 pandemic, Caribbean, Central America, COVID-19, CR, Credit, Debt service, Economic recovery effort, Executive Board discussion, Global, ISCR, Liquidity position, Market confidence, Panama's quota, Panama's request, PFM system, Western Hemisphere

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    102

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2021/030

  • Stock No:

    1PANEA2021001

  • ISBN:

    9781513568294

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685