Regional Economic Outlook, October 2020, Western Hemisphere: Pandemic Persistence Clouds the Recovery

Regional Economic Outlook, October 22, 2020

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• Published: October 22, 2020
• Series: Regional Economic Outlook
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513558264.086

Summary

• The pandemic continues to spread in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), but economic activity is picking up.
• After a deep contraction in April, activity started recovering in May, as lockdowns were gradually eased, consumers and firms adapted to social distancing, some countries introduced sizable policy support, and global activity strengthened.

Major themes and subject areas

• Asset and liability management
• COVID-19
• Crisis management
• Crisis recovery and resolution planning
• Debt restructuring
• Emerging and frontier financial markets
• Financial markets
• Financial risk
• Health
• International organization
• Labor market policy
• Monetary policy
• Poverty
• Regional Economic Outlook
• Securities markets

Keywords and focal topics

• banking sector
• Caribbean
• Central America
• COVID-19
• Debt restructuring
• fiscal policy
• Global
• hard currency
• IMF staff calculation
• lockdowns
• nominal GDP
• pandemic
• potential GDP
• public health
• recovery
• REO
• reopening
• Securities markets
• trading partner
• world bank LAC estimate

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• Asset and liability management
• COVID-19
• Crisis management
• Crisis recovery and resolution planning
• Debt restructuring
• Emerging and frontier financial markets
• Financial markets
• Financial risk
• Health
• International organization
• Labor market policy
• Monetary policy
• Poverty
• Regional Economic Outlook
• Securities markets
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