Acronyms and abbreviations
Automatic Exchange of Information
Active Labour Market Policy
Autoridad de la Micro, Pequeña y Mediana Empresa (Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprise Authority)
Asociación de Municipios de Panamá
Argentinian peso
Base Erosion and Profit Shifting
Brazilian Real
Development Bank of Latin America
Social Security Agency
Center for Distributional, Labor and Social Studies of the University of La Plata
Commitment to Equity
Controlled foreign company
Colón Free Trade Zone
French General Commission for the Equality of Territories (Commissariat Général à l’Egalité des Territoires)
Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations
Corporate income tax
Centro Nacional de Competitividad
Centre of Government
Common Reporting Standard
Caja de Seguridad Social
Dirección de Presupuesto de la Nación
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
Economist Intelligence Unit
Exchange of Information on Request
Fondo de Ahorro de Panamá (Sovereign Wealth Fund)
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Foreign Direct Investment
Gross Domestic Product
Government of the Republic of Panama
International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation
Inter-American Development Bank
Instituto para Desenvolvimiento do Varejo
Intermunicipal co-operation
Instituto para la Formación y Aprovechamiento de Recursos Humanos
International Labour Organization
International Monetary Fund
Instituto Nacional de Formación Profesional y Capacitación para el Desarrollo Humano (National Training Institute)
Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censo (National Institute of Statistics and Census)
Instituto Nacional de Formación Técnico Profesional
Instituto Técnico Superior del Este (Higher Technical Institute of the East)
Latin America and the Caribbean
Labor Database for Latin America and the Caribbean
Multi-Dimensional Country Review
Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas (Ministry of Economy and Finance)
Ministerio de Educación
McKinsey Global Institute
Mecanismo Independiente de Consulta e Investigación
Ministerio de Desarrollo Social
Middle Income Trap
Ministerio de Trabajo y Desarrollo Laboral
Municipal Performance Measurement Program
Micro, Small, and Medium-sized Enterprises
Non-financial public sector
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Panamanian Balboa
Planes Estratégicos Distritales
Plan Estrategico de Gobierno
Survey of Adult Skills
Programme for International Student Assessment
Personal Income Tax
Purchasing Power Parity
Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean
Special Economic Zones
Sistema de Recolhimento em Valores Fixos Mensais do Tributos do Simples Nacional
Labour Markets and Social Security Information System
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Social Security Contributions
Subsecretaria de Desarrollo Regional y Administrativo
Peruvian tax administration
Tax administration diagnostic assessment tool
Third Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study
Technical and Vocational Education and Training
United Nations
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
United States Dollar
Value Added Tax
VAT Revenue Ratio
World Trade Organization