01738cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF018531 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781484359792 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept. El Salvador : Selected Issues. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018. 1 online resource (79 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This Selected Issues paper proposes a simple nowcast model for an early assessment of the Salvadorian economy. The exercise is based on a bridge model, which is one of the many tools available for nowcasting. For El Salvador, the bridge model exploits information for the period 2005-17 from a large set of variables that are published earlier and at higher frequency than the variable of interest, in this case quarterly GDP. The estimated GDP growth rate in the 4th quarter of 2017 is 2.4 percent year-over-year, leading to an average GDP growth rate of 2.3 percent in 2017. This is in line with the GDP growth implied by the official statistics released two months later, in March 23, 2018. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2018/152 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2018/152/002.2018.issue-152-en.xml IMF e-Library