IMF Staff Country Reports

Suriname: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

November 19, 2003

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper for Suriname describes the structure of the financial system, and provides a preliminary assessment of the conditions of the banking system. It highlights the need for a comprehensive public sector reform, targeting both the civil service and the public enterprises, and reviews the recent policy developments and financial sector reforms. It also provides the IMF's projections and estimates for Suriname on central government operations in percent of GDP; central government revenues, grants, and expenditure in billions of guilders and in percent of GDP; summary accounts of the banking system, and so on.

Subject: Bank supervision, Banking, Civil service, Commercial banks, Financial institutions, Financial regulation and supervision, Labor, Public employment, State-owned banks

Keywords: Adverse selection, Bank, Bank licensing, Bank supervision, Caribbean, Central bank, Civil service, Commercial banks, CR, Exchange rate, Financial situation, Illiquid bank, Inflation spiral dynamics, ISCR, Lending portfolio composition, Market structure, Portfolio composition of the banking system, Public employment, Return on assets, Screening criteria, Small state bank, Spiral hypothesis, State-owned banks, Supervision department-central bank

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    55

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2003/357

  • Stock No:

    1SUREA0022003

  • ISBN:

    9781451835250

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685