Nicaragua: Selected Issues
September 5, 2012
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The paper is an elaborated report on Nicaragua’s potential economic growth. The challenges and idiosyncratic shocks were immense but the policies of better education, labor contracts, and accomplishments in public investments paved the way for movement of the economy. The external competitiveness and exchange rate assessment also have an important hand. The achievements in the electricity sector and the improvement in reforming the pension system are the prominent aspects. On the whole, the Board considers this growth as a positive trial of development in the global panorama.
Subject: Commodities, Electricity, Expenditure, Output gap, Production, Public investment spending, Tariffs, Taxes, Total factor productivity
Keywords: Central America, CR, Doing Business Indicators rank Nicaragua, Electricity, generation cost, ISCR, maquila export, minimum wage, Output gap, Public investment spending, reserve coverage, tariff, tariff policy, tariff-cost gap, Tariffs, tax shock, Total factor productivity
Pages:
56
Volume:
2012
DOI:
Issue:
257
Series:
Country Report No. 2012/257
Stock No:
1NICEA2012002
ISBN:
9781475506631
ISSN:
1934-7685
