Economic Growth and Integration in Central America
Occasional Papers, June 13, 2007
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Bibliographic details
- Authors: Alfred Schipke, Dominique Desruelle
- Published: June 13, 2007
- Series: Occasional Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589066168.084
Executive summary and challenges
- How to entrench hard-won gains, increase resilience to shocks, and improve growth performance to reduce poverty?
- As Central America moves forward in regaining macroeconomic stability, these are the challenges.
Scope and analytical focus
- This study analyzes Central America’s real, fiscal, monetary, and financial sector policies at the regional level.
- It starts with a review of growth performance and the macroeconomic implications of remittances.
- It then looks at:
- the sustainability of pension systems,
- financial system development,
- sovereign debt vulnerabilities,
- ways to sustain progress in reducing inflation by strengthening the credibility of central banks.
Key topics and subjects covered
- Aging
- Banking
- Expenditure
- Inflation
- Labor
- Pension spending
- Pensions
- Population and demographics
- Prices
- Public debt
Keywords
- Aging
- Central America
- Central America-Chile
- Central America-Dominican Republic
- Central America-Panama
- country
- debt
- debt structure
- foreign currency debt
- Global
- government
- Inflation
- OP
- Pension spending
- Pensions
- productivity performance
- productivity-enhancing reform
- retirement age
- South America
- Western Hemisphere
Content in this bundle
- _op257s — Conclusiones
- Occasional Paper 257: Economic Growth and Integration in Central America, Chapter 1 - June 2007