IMF Staff Country Reports

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues

August 2, 2007

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International Monetary Fund. "Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues", IMF Staff Country Reports 2007, 269 (2007), accessed 12/28/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451804942.002

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines the risks and structural weaknesses in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paper provides an estimate of the current account adjustment required to stabilize net foreign liabilities. It uses the external sustainability approach of the Consultative Group on Exchange Rate Issues (CGER) methodology for exchange rate assessment. The paper analyzes the impact of the newly introduced borrowing rules on the longer-term debt dynamics. An overview of salient facts about unemployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina is also presented.

Subject: Balance of payments, Credit, Current account, Employment, Labor, Money, Unemployment, Wages

Keywords: Bosnia-Herzegovina, CR, Credit, credit growth, Current account, Eastern Europe, Employment, Entity convergence, Global, ISCR, medium-term baseline outlook, net foreign liabilities, RS economy, Unemployment, wage, Wages, Western Europe