## Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands Antilles: Recent Developments, Selected Issues, and Statistical Appendix

_IMF Staff Country Reports, May 18, 2001_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: May 18, 2001
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451801019.002

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### Overview
- Publication date: May 18, 2001
- Format: IMF Staff Country Report
- Pages: 66
- Series: Country Report No. 2001/073
- Volume: 2001
- Issue: 073
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451801019.002
- Stock No: 1ANTEA0022001
- ISBN: 9781451801019
- ISSN: 1934-7685

### Key findings
- The paper provides a brief review of economic developments and policies in the Netherlands Antilles.
- The government’s current adjustment initiative provides a much needed opportunity for restoring growth prospects for the Netherlands Antilles.
- The paper examines issues pertaining to the development and prospects of the Antillean offshore sector.
- The offshore sector experienced initial spectacular growth, later encountered a number of obstacles, but has continued to register positive, albeit more moderate, growth.

### Subjects and keywords
- Subject: Expenditure, Financial services, Labor, Revenue administration, Tax collection
- Keywords: broad money, Caribbean, country, CR, Global, government, ISCR, island government, labor market, market share, tax, tax collection, Tax collection, U.S. dollar

### Policy implications and emphasis
- The adjustment initiative by the government is highlighted as a key opportunity to restore growth prospects.
- Continued monitoring and policy attention to the offshore sector are implied by the sector’s shift from spectacular to more moderate growth amid encountered obstacles.

*International Monetary Fund. "Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands Antilles: Recent Developments, Selected Issues, and Statistical Appendix", IMF Staff Country Reports 2001, 073 (2001), accessed 9/13/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451801019.002*

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