Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues
August 2, 2007
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
Pages:
87
Volume:
2007
DOI:
Issue:
269
Series:
Country Report No. 2007/269
Stock No:
1BIHEA2007002
ISBN:
9781451804942
ISSN:
1934-7685





