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Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Peru: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
The Selected Issues paper focuses on productivity and growth in Peru. Firms have maintained smaller sizes to avoid the application of a profit-sharing legislation, which has resulted in lower productivity. After a decade of high economic growth averaging over 6 percent per year, potential growth has been falling since 2014. A much slower pace of investment and human has driven the decline capital accumulation, but most notably, a decline in total factor productivity growth. In line with the macroeconomic trends, firm-level productivity has worsened, and the decline has been broad-based across the economy. Special corporate tax regimes and labor legislations and regulations have created barriers to productivity growth. To raise productivity, policies will need to focus on reforming regulations that impose excessive costs to formalizing or growing a business. Down the line, introducing greater labor market flexibility would ensure that workers could transition to productive sectors of the economy and reduce labor informality.
Keywords:
El Niño shock; building RESILIENCE; B. Measuring productivity; B. artificial intelligence; total factor productivity growth; labor force complementarity; Climate change; Natural disasters; Productivity; Potential output; Artificial intelligence; Global; Caribbean
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Harnessing Satellite Data to Improve Social Assistance Targeting in the Eastern Caribbean
Sophia Chen
,
Ryu Matsuura
,
Flavien Moreau
, and
Joana Pereira
Prioritizing populations most in need of social assistance is an important policy decision. In the Eastern Caribbean, social assistance targeting is constrained by limited data and the need for rapid support in times of large economic and natural disaster shocks. We leverage recent advances in machine learning and satellite imagery processing to propose an implementable strategy in the face of these constraints. We show that local well-being can be predicted with high accuracy in the Eastern Caribbean region using satellite data and that such predictions can be used to improve targeting by reducing aggregation bias, better allocating resources across areas, and proxying for information difficult to verify.
Keywords:
Social assistance targeting; satellite data; machine learning; Eastern Caribbean; Small Island Developing States.; aggregation bias; hard-to-verify information; satellite imagery processing; Income; Natural disasters; Caribbean
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Request for Disbursement under the Rapid Credit Facility
International Monetary Fund
The Executive Board of the IMF on July 25, 2011, has approved a disbursement of an amount equivalent to SDR 1.245 million under the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF) for St. Vincent and the Grenadines to help the country meet the urgent balance-of-payments need caused by torrential rains, flooding, and landslides in April that caused extensive damage to infrastructure, agriculture, and housing. The RCF, which provides rapid financial assistance for low-income countries with an urgent balance-of-payments need, does not require any program-based conditionality or review.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; debt; balance of payments difficulty; The RCF; present value; discussion of St. Vincent and the Grenadines; urgent balance of payments; debt service; exchange rate; Natural disasters; Public and publicly-guaranteed external debt; Fiscal stance; Caribbean; North America; Northern Europe; Global