IMF Staff Country Reports

Paraguay: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

Publication Date:

April 10, 2000

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

This Selected Issues paper analyzes the background, stages and developments, and estimation of the direct costs of Paraguay's banking crisis. The paper provides the estimates on the size and evolution of the informal sector, and examines the extent to which the national accounts capture informal activity. The study also estimates the potential output and total factor productivity by examining trends in output, investment, and population growth as well as the direction and size of fiscal impulse on its economy. The paper also provides a statistical appendix report of Paraguay.

Series:

Country Report No. 2000/051

Subject:

Banking Economic sectors Financial institutions Fiscal policy Fiscal stance Loans National accounts Potential output Production Public sector