Tuvalu: Staff Report for the 2014 Article IV Consultation
IMF Staff Country Reports, August 28, 2014
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- Published: August 28, 2014
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781498354257.002
Overview
- Publication title: Tuvalu: Staff Report for the 2014 Article IV Consultation
- Date: August 28, 2014
- Core summary: Tuvalu is one of the smallest and most isolated countries in the world, facing severe challenges from remoteness, lack of scale economies, weak institutional capacity, and climate change and rising sea levels, which threaten the country’s very existence. (Appendix III)
Key facts and vulnerabilities
- Population: some 11,000 people
- Land area: 26 square kilometers
- Distance to nearest major external market (New Zealand): more than 3,000 kilometers
- Primary vulnerabilities:
- Remoteness and isolation
- Lack of scale economies
- Weak institutional capacity
- Climate change and rising sea levels posing existential threats
Analytical focus and subject areas
- Subject: Debt sustainability analysis, Economic sectors, External debt, National accounts, Public debt, Public enterprises, Public financial management (PFM)
- Keywords: Asia and Pacific, budget expansion, CR, development achievement, Global, government, ISCR, managed public enterprises, Pacific Islands, public enterprise, Public enterprises, structural surplus, Tuvalu, Tuvalu's legal tender, Tuvaluan authorities
Document metadata (from landing page)
- Series: Country Report No. 2014/253
- Issue: 253
- Volume: 2014
- Pages: 61
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781498354257.002
- ISBN: 9781498354257
- ISSN: 1934-7685
- Stock No: 1TUVEA2014001
International Monetary Fund. "Tuvalu: Staff Report for the 2014 Article IV Consultation", IMF Staff Country Reports 2014, 253 (2014), August 28, 2014.