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  "summary": "Global resilience was tested in fiscal year 2026 by growing fiscal pressures, AI deployment and disruption, strains on still-resilient trade, and new frontiers for digital finance. The Report shows how the IMF supported its 191 members in navigating a precarious world.",
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      "heading": "Global economic backdrop and resilience",
      "content": "- Fiscal year 2026: global resilience was tested by growing fiscal pressures, AI deployment and disruption, strains on still-resilient trade, and new frontiers for digital finance.\n- The world economy showed remarkable resilience entering 2026, despite new conflicts, supply chain disruptions, and rapid technological change reshaping the economic landscape.\n- The IMF Annual Report 2026 explores the forces driving the global economy and the policy trade-offs confronting governments."
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      "heading": "Key thematic drivers highlighted",
      "content": "- Growing fiscal pressures affecting policy space and macroeconomic stability.\n- AI deployment and disruption as a rapid technological change with broad economic implications.\n- Strains on trade, even as trade remains described as \"still-resilient\".\n- Emerging frontiers in digital finance altering financial intermediation and cross-border payments."
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    {
      "heading": "IMF support and institutional response",
      "content": "- The IMF supports its 191 member countries through:\n  - Surveillance.\n  - Lending.\n  - Capacity development.\n- The IMF collaborates with other international organizations to address shared global challenges."
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      "heading": "What the report provides",
      "content": "- Insight into the challenges policymakers face amid fiscal, technological, trade, and financial shifts.\n- Data and analysis on the global economy and the role of the IMF in supporting members during a challenging year."
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    "Fiscal year 2026: global resilience was tested by growing fiscal pressures, AI deployment and disruption, strains on still-resilient trade, and new frontiers for digital finance.",
    "The world economy showed remarkable resilience entering 2026, despite new conflicts, supply chain disruptions, and rapid technological change reshaping the economic landscape.",
    "The IMF Annual Report 2026 explores the forces driving the global economy and the policy trade-offs confronting governments.",
    "Growing fiscal pressures affecting policy space and macroeconomic stability.",
    "AI deployment and disruption as a rapid technological change with broad economic implications.",
    "Strains on trade, even as trade remains described as \"still-resilient\".",
    "Emerging frontiers in digital finance altering financial intermediation and cross-border payments.",
    "The IMF supports its 191 member countries through:",
    "The IMF collaborates with other international organizations to address shared global challenges.",
    "Insight into the challenges policymakers face amid fiscal, technological, trade, and financial shifts.",
    "Data and analysis on the global economy and the role of the IMF in supporting members during a challenging year.",
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    "**Deutsch**",
    "**Appendices**",
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