Honduras: Staff Report for the 2005 Article IV Consultation, Second Review Under the Three–Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, Requests for Modification and Waiver of Performance Criteria, and Financing Assurances Review;

Staff Report for the 2005 Article IV Consultation, Second Review Under the Three–Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, Requests for Modification and Waiver of Performance Criteria, and Financing Assurances Review; and Enhanced Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries—Completion Point Document

Volume/Issue: Volume 2006 Issue 035
Publication date: February 2006
ISBN: 9781451817171
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Banks and Banking , Labor , Economics- Macroeconomics , Public Finance , Public Policy - Social Services and Welfare , ISCR , CR , staff appraisal , public transportation tariff , PRGF arrangement , government , PRGF loan , Honduran authorities , Public sector , Poverty reduction strategy , Wages , Financial sector , Central America

Summary

This paper examines Honduras’s 2005 Article IV Consultation and Second Review Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility. In the period 1960–2000, output growth in Honduras ranked among the lowest in the region. During the 1990s, when growth recovered in the rest of Central America, in Honduras it only kept pace with population growth. The authorities embarked on an economic reform program that focuses on ensuring macroeconomic stability and strengthening growth prospects through the development of human capital and basic infrastructure.