Nicaragua Resident Representative Site

Resident Representative Office in Nicaragua

March 2010

This web page provides information in on the activities of the Office, views of the IMF staff, and the relations between Nicaragua and the IMF. Additional information can be found on Nicaragua and IMF country page, including official IMF reports and Executive Board documents in English and Spanish that deal with Nicaragua.

News and Highlights

Address to Finance Ministers of the Americas and Caribbean

By Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, Lima, May 28, 2010 

Good policies provide stability in Latin America

The right policies put in place before the global economic crisis helped Latin America weather the downturn and begin to recover sooner than other regions of the world. Video 

Transcript of a Press conference

With Nicolas Eyzaguirre, Director; David Robinson, Deputy Director; Miguel Savastano, Gilbert Terrier, and Rodrigo Valdes, Senior Advisors, in the Western Hemisphere Department; and Andreas Adriano, Media Relations Officer, in the External Relations Department Saturday, April 24, 2010 

Grappling with the Global Financial Crisis: Outlook for Latin America

Presentation by Robert Rennhack, Assistant Director, Western Hemisphere Department 

Nicaragua and The IMF

Nicaragua: Staff Report for the 2012 Article IV Consultation

September 5, 2012
Series: Country Report No. 12/256 

Nicaragua: Selected Issues

September 5, 2012
Series: Country Report No. 12/257 

Nicaragua: Ex Post Assessment of Longer-Term Program Engagement

September 5, 2012
Series: Country Report No. 12/258 

Public Information Notice: IMF Executive Board Concludes 2012 Article IV Consultation with Nicaragua

July 12, 2012
Each Public Information Notice contains a background section, a table of selected economic indicators, and an Executive Board assessment. 

Press Release: Statement by an IMF Article IV Mission to Nicaragua

May 15, 2012

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Regional Economic Outlook: Western Hemisphere

Growth in Latin America is set to pick up to about 3½ percent in 2013, broadly in line with potential. The region continues to benefit from favorable external financing conditions and relatively high commodity prices, but these tailwinds are unlikely to last forever. The key challenges for policymakers today are preserving macroeconomic and financial stability, and building strong foundations for sustained growth in the future. More prudent fiscal policy would help ease pressure on capacity constraints, mitigate the widening of current account deficits, and prepare the economies better to deal with adverse external shocks. Exchange rate flexibility and prudential measures should continue to be used to discourage speculative capital flows. Sustaining strong output growth will require structural reforms to raise productivity growth.