(AGENPARL) - Roma, 17 Febbraio 2023 - (AGENPARL) – ven 17 febbraio 2023 [Mission Concluding Statements](http://www.imf.org/cgi-shl/create_x.pl?ms)
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[Belize Staff Concluding Statement of the 2023 Article IV Mission](https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2023/02/17/belize-staff-concluding-statement-of-the-2023-article-iv-mission?cid=em-COM-123-46138)
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
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Economic activity has rebounded strongly from the COVID-19 pandemic, while inflation has risen. The rebased national accounts show that, after contracting by 13.4 percent in 2020, real GDP rebounded by 15.2 percent in 2021 and 11.6 percent in the first three quarters of 2022, driven by retail and wholesale trade, tourism, and business process outsourcing. Visitor arrivals reached 74 percent of pre-pandemic levels in 2022 as COVID-19 restrictions eased amid vaccination efforts in Belize and source markets, while the unemployment rate fell from 10.2 percent in 2021 to 5.0 percent in the second half of 2022. Inflation increased to 3.2 percent in 2021 and 6.3 percent in 2022, driven by higher global food and fuel prices despite the fixing of domestic diesel and regular gasoline prices at the pump since April 2022.
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