IMF Staff Country Reports

Suriname: Selected Issues

December 4, 2013

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Suriname: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed October 6, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper focuses on constructing a high-frequency economic growth indicator for Suriname. Most economic data for Suriname are available only with a substantial time lag and on a low-frequency basis, impeding such analyses. This paper presents a simple econometric model that closely approximates GDP in recent years. The model estimates are used to construct a monthly indicator of economic activity for Suriname. The indicator provides information about the pace of economic activity close to real time, typically with a one- to two-month lag.

Subject: Commodities, Credit, Environment, Gold, Gold prices, Labor, Labor markets, Money, Non-renewable resources, Prices

Keywords: B. gold market development, Caribbean, CR, Credit, Employment, Employment protection, Employment-output elasticity analysis, Global, Gold, Gold price scenario, Gold prices, ISCR, Labor market indicator, Labor markets, Minimum wage, Non-renewable resources, Participation rate, Price forecast, Public sector wage bill, Sustainability gap, Wage, Wage bargaining

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    46

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2013/341

  • Stock No:

    1SUREA2013002

  • ISBN:

    9781475562354

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685