Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues
IMF Staff Country Reports, October 6, 2008
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- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues
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Bibliographic details
- Published: October 6, 2008
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451804966.002
Key findings
- GDP per capita in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is similar to that in neighboring Balkan countries.
- BiH risks falling behind rather than catching up with other transition economies in terms of economic development.
- Falling behind could delay the process of convergence to and integration with the European Union, including ambitions to eventually adopt the euro.
- Accelerated structural reforms and macroeconomic stability are identified as key to achieving higher and sustained growth rates.
Thematic coverage and subjects
- Consumer price indexes
- Export performance
- Exports
- Foreign exchange
- Inflation
- International trade
- Prices
- Real exchange rates
Keywords and analytic focus
- BiH risk
- BIH's inflation
- BiH's inflation figure
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- CA gap
- Consumer price indexes
- CR
- current account
- Europe
- exchange rate
- export
- export growth
- Export performance
- Exports
- Global
- growth dynamics
- Inflation
- inflation performance
- ISCR
- Real exchange rates
- rising prices
Policy implications and recommendations
- Prioritize accelerated structural reforms to improve convergence and economic development.
- Maintain macroeconomic stability to support higher and sustained growth rates.
- Address factors that could delay EU integration and adoption of the euro through targeted policy action.
Content in this bundle
- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 08/326; August 28, 2008