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Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Panama: Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
This Selected Issues paper discusses unravelling Panama’s large unemployment fluctuations. Panama’s labor force and employment have increased remarkably over the last decades. The rapid labor force growth was driven by a combination of demographic and social transformations. The increase in the labor force participation rate was the result of rising female labor force participation. Panama’s income convergence in the 25 years preceding the Pandemic was in large part the result of an increase in the employment to population rate. Convergence can either result from an increase in the employment rate relative to that in the US, or from faster labor productivity growth. In the case of Panama, about three quarters of the reduction in the income differential with the US was driven by an increase in the employment to population rate, and only one quarter was the result of faster labor productivity growth. Going forward, the increase in the employment to population ratio is likely to be slower and, for income convergence to continue, productivity growth will need to accelerate. The demographic transition has largely run its course as population growth is projected to keep declining and the share of the working-age population is expected to decrease in the next decades.
Keywords:
B. Dollarized economy; labor market market trend; D. labor force; E. building RESILIENCE; unemployment fluctuation; Climate change; Deposit insurance; Labor force; Natural disasters; Financial safety nets; Caribbean; Central America; Global; South America; Europe
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Framework Administered Account for Selected Fund Activities - Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Center (CARTAC) Subaccount
International Monetary Fund
In March 2009, the Fund established a new Framework Administered Account to administer external financial resources for selected Fund activities (the “SFA Instrument”). The financing of activities under the terms of the SFA Instrument is implemented through the establishment and operation of a subaccount within the SFA. This paper requests Executive Board approval to establish the Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Center (CARTAC) subaccount (the “Subaccount”) under the terms of the SFA Instrument.
Keywords:
PP; Subaccount; contributor; terms and conditions of the Subaccount; ex ante concurrence; resources of the Subaccount; contributor's consent; concurrence of contributor; beneficiaries of CARTAC; Capital markets; Wages; Caribbean
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IMF Survey, Volume 31, Issue 21
International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Tanzanian President Benjamin William Mkapa’s remarks on the inauguration of East AFRITAC could not have been clearer or more emphatic. If Africa is to define its own economic destiny, it must strengthen its ability to design and implement sound economic policies. And policy ownership and capacity building are what the new regional technical assistance center, which opened October 24 in Dar es Salaam, is all about.
Keywords:
SV; Dem. rep.; IMF Concludes; website; country; Emergency assistance program; fund facility; IMF European; IMF publication service; Poverty reduction strategy; Fiscal federalism; Bonds; Caribbean; Africa; Global; East Africa; Central Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa