TY - BOOK ID - 136983522 TI - The Bahamas: 2022 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for The Bahamas. PY - 2022 SN - 9798400209758 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Bahamas, The KW - Money and Monetary Policy KW - International Economics KW - Public Finance KW - Business and Financial KW - Statistics KW - Diseases: Contagious KW - Monetary Policy KW - International Agreements and Observance KW - International Organizations KW - Debt KW - Debt Management KW - Sovereign Debt KW - General Financial Markets: Government Policy and Regulation KW - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology KW - Computer Programs: Other KW - Health Behavior KW - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General KW - Monetary economics KW - International institutions KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Financial services law & regulation KW - Econometrics & economic statistics KW - Infectious & contagious diseases KW - Monetary policy KW - International organization KW - Public debt KW - Financial regulation and supervision KW - COVID-19 KW - Health KW - Credit KW - Money KW - National accounts KW - International agencies KW - Debts, Public KW - Financial services industry KW - Law and legislation KW - Communicable diseases KW - National income UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136983522 AB - The Bahamas is experiencing a tourism-led rebound. Real GDP growth in 2021 was close to 14 percent, as stayover tourist arrivals doubled relative to 2020. The economy is projected to expand by 8 percent in 2022. Nonetheless, it will likely take until 2024 to return to the 2019 level of GDP and the pandemic has given rise to significant human and social costs. The country’s medium-term growth challenges are likely worse than before, and public finances are in a more precarious state. Risks are skewed downwards given a difficult near-term financing situation, rising inflationary—and potentially BOP—pressures because of the war in Ukraine, an ongoing threat from the evolving pandemic, and the country’s high vulnerability to natural disasters. ER -