The construction of productivity indicators from the sectoral study of the Panamanian economy as a scope of this research is sustainedin the objective of determining the sectors that gain, equal or lose productivity. The methodology involves the use of the Input-Output Tables of the years 2019, 2020 and 2021 based on the Supply and Utilization Tables generated by the National Institute of Statistics and Census, at reference prices of the year 2018 and with measures of chained volumes.
The results aim to demonstrate that the transformation, industrial or secondary sector sectors are those that generate the greatest changes in productivity, but that when there is a demand shock in the economy in 2020, it results in the considerable incorporation and weight of these sectors in the classification of those sectors that lose productivity; while for 2021, given the economic recovery due to the control of the disease, pre-pandemic production is not achieved, although it is close to being achieved. These results will serve to develop public policies in order to increase productivity at the sectoral and territorial level.
