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  "title": "Suriname: Selected Issues",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues Paper carries out an empirical analysis of the effects of policies and external shocks on economic activity in Suriname. The estimates are broadly consistent with prior empirical findings.",
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      "content": "- This Selected Issues Paper carries out an empirical analysis of the effects of policies and external shocks on economic activity in Suriname.\n- The estimates are broadly consistent with prior empirical findings.\n- The results reveal a strong contemporaneous correlation between credit and demand.\n- The empirical link between exports and demand seems slightly weaker.\n- The results for import demand point to a strong correlation between imports and exports.\n- The export variable is highly significant and explains a large fraction of the total variation in imports.\n- An increase in exports of 1 percent is associated with a 0.61 percent increase in imports."
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      "content": "- Empirical analysis of policy and external shock effects on Suriname’s economic activity.\n- Estimates compared to prior empirical findings (described as broadly consistent)."
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      "heading": "Subject classifications and keywords",
      "content": "- Subjects: Aging, Civil service, Expenditure, Exports, Imports, International trade, Labor, Pension spending, Pensions, Population and demographics\n- Keywords: Aging, Caribbean, center, Civil service, CR, economic risk, export commodity, Exports, Global, import demand equation, ISCR, macro-economic risks, modeling demand response, Pension spending, Pensions, revenue multiplier, risk appetite, spillover risk, Suriname, WEO commodity price projection\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Suriname: Selected Issues Paper; IMF Country Report 14/317; August 14, 2014\n  - Suriname: Selected Issues Paper; IMF Country Report 14/317; August 14, 2014 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Suriname: Selected Issues Paper; IMF Country Report 14/317; August 14, 2014 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2016/12/31/suriname-selected-issues-42436"
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    "Published: October 31, 2014",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
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    "This Selected Issues Paper carries out an empirical analysis of the effects of policies and external shocks on economic activity in Suriname.",
    "The estimates are broadly consistent with prior empirical findings.",
    "The results reveal a strong contemporaneous correlation between credit and demand.",
    "The empirical link between exports and demand seems slightly weaker.",
    "The results for import demand point to a strong correlation between imports and exports.",
    "The export variable is highly significant and explains a large fraction of the total variation in imports.",
    "An increase in exports of 1 percent is associated with a 0.61 percent increase in imports.",
    "Empirical analysis of policy and external shock effects on Suriname’s economic activity.",
    "Estimates compared to prior empirical findings (described as broadly consistent).",
    "Subjects: Aging, Civil service, Expenditure, Exports, Imports, International trade, Labor, Pension spending, Pensions, Population and demographics",
    "Keywords: Aging, Caribbean, center, Civil service, CR, economic risk, export commodity, Exports, Global, import demand equation, ISCR, macro-economic risks, modeling demand response, Pension spending, Pensions, revenue multiplier, risk appetite, spillover risk, Suriname, WEO commodity price projection",
    "**Suriname: Selected Issues Paper; IMF Country Report 14/317; August 14, 2014**"
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