Costa Rica’s Central Bank’s Outlook for Last 2Q of 2010

By Adam Williams
Tico Times Staff | [email protected]
http://www.ticotimes.net/daily_paid/dailynewsarchive/2010_08/080310.htm#story2
Rodrigo Bolaños, president of the Central Bank of Costa Rica (BCCR), provided an analysis last Thursday of the nation’s economic status through the first six months of 2010,with predictions for the remainder of the calendar year.

Bolaños revised the BCCR’s inflation prediction, foreseeing that the rate of increase in consumer prices should hit 5 to 6 percent by year’s end, a shade higher than the 4 percent goal set in January. In the first six months of the year, national consumer prices have risen 3.4 percent, primarily due to increased prices and tariffs on goods and services traded in the international market, as well as heightened tuition costs of universities and private schools. In the past 12 months, consumer prices have risen 6.3 percent.

Using the Monthly Economic Activity Index (IMAE), BCCR concluded that the national economy has grown 5.2 percent through the first six months of the year, thanks in large part to larger revenue margins in the manufacturing, agriculture and service industry sectors. However, BCCR also reported that revenue earned in the construction sector has fallen 3.6 percent. The bank now expects the sector to finish the year with an estimated 6 percent loss in profits compared to 2009. The diminished growth in construction was attributed to a leveling out of the construction boom from 2005 to 2008, when the sector reported annual growth of about20 percent, and to a decrease in construction in free zones. In 2009, construction fell 5.2 percent over 2008.

Bolaños also addressed the fiscal deficit, which BCCR predicts will finish the year at 5.2 percent of the national gross domestic product (GDP). The deficit currently represents 2.18 percent of the GDP, although throughout the year both the BCCR and Finance Ministry have projected it will rise to about5 percent by year’s end.

As for the exchange rate, Bolaños said the current band system used to control the fluctuations of the value of the colón will remain unchanged, at least in the short term.

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