Panama: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

January 6, 2006

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Panama: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper for Panama reports that the administration is developing a strategy to enhance growth and competitiveness in the Panamanian economy. Corruption is perceived as a widespread phenomenon that has affected both private and public sectors in Panama at various levels of decision making. Even though Panama currently attracts substantial foreign direct investment, corruption may prove an obstacle to a medium-term growth strategy based on foreign investment. One important component of Panama's medium-term strategy is the prospect of a free-trade agreement with the United States.

Subject: Commercial banks, Corruption, Crime, Imports, Income and capital gains taxes, International trade, Revenue administration, Tariffs, Taxes

Keywords: Central America, Central and Eastern Europe, Corruption, CR, Deficit, Eastern Europe, E-government tool, Global, Government bureaucracy, Government policymaking, Imports, Income and capital gains taxes, ISCR, Panama Canal authority, Panamanian authorities, PCA budget, Tariff, Tariffs, Tax, Trade diversion, Western Hemisphere

Publication Details

Pages:

126
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2006/003
Stock No:

1PANEA2006001
ISBN:

9781451830842
ISSN:

1934-7685

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