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  "title": "The Top Ten Blogs of 2015",
  "publication": "IMF Blog, December 30, 2015",
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  "summary": "Publication: iMFdirect",
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    {
      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Publication: iMFdirect\n- Date: December 30, 2015\n- Summary: 2015 featured bold blog contributions at the IMF, including pieces by Olivier Blanchard and Vitor Gaspar, head of the Fiscal Affairs Department.\n- Reader interest focused on: tough choices for Greece; the slump in commodity prices; the real cost of energy subsidies; how the poor and middle class contribute to growth; and new insights into emerging markets."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Top ten list (compiled based on readership)",
      "content": "- Seven Questions About The Recent Oil Price Slump \n- Greece: Past Critiques and the Path Forward\n- Greece: A Credible Deal Will Require Difficult Decisions By All Sides\n- Act Local, Solve Global: The $5.3 Trillion Energy Subsidy Problem\n- Contours of Macroeconomic Policy in the Future\n- Sovereign Wealth Funds in the New Era of Oil\n- Growth’s Secret Weapon: The Poor and the Middle Class\n- Metals and Oil: A Tale of Two Commodities\n- Ten Take Aways from the “Rethinking Macro Policy: Progress or Confusion?”\n- How Much Finance Is Too Much: Stability, Growth & Emerging Markets\n\n- Note: \" published in late December 2014 but we decided to grandfather it in.\""
    },
    {
      "heading": "Honorable mentions",
      "content": "- The Price of Oil and the Price of Carbon\n- (Yet) Another Year of Subpar Growth: Latin America and the Caribbean in 2015\n- Canada’s Financial Sector: How to Enhance its Resilience"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Closing",
      "content": "- From the editors of iMFdirect: wishes for a peaceful, intriguing and insightful 2016.\n\nSource: The Top Ten Blogs of 2015, iMFdirect, December 30, 2015.\n\n---\n\n\n References\n\n- Olivier Blanchard\n- Vitor Gaspar\n- Seven Questions About The Recent Oil Price Slump\n- Greece: Past Critiques and the Path Forward\n- Greece: A Credible Deal Will Require Difficult Decisions By All Sides\n- Act Local, Solve Global: The $5.3 Trillion Energy Subsidy Problem\n- Contours of Macroeconomic Policy in the Future\n- Sovereign Wealth Funds in the New Era of Oil\n- Growth’s Secret Weapon: The Poor and the Middle Class\n- Metals and Oil: A Tale of Two Commodities\n- Ten Take Aways from the “Rethinking Macro Policy: Progress or Confusion?”\n- How Much Finance Is Too Much: Stability, Growth & Emerging Markets\n- The Price of Oil and the Price of Carbon\n- (Yet) Another Year of Subpar Growth: Latin America and the Caribbean in 2015\n- Canada’s Financial Sector: How to Enhance its Resilience\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2015/12/30/the-top-ten-blogs-of-2015"
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    "Published: December 30, 2015",
    "Publication: iMFdirect",
    "Date: December 30, 2015",
    "Summary: 2015 featured bold blog contributions at the IMF, including pieces by Olivier Blanchard and Vitor Gaspar, head of the Fiscal Affairs Department.",
    "Reader interest focused on: tough choices for Greece; the slump in commodity prices; the real cost of energy subsidies; how the poor and middle class contribute to growth; and new insights into emerging markets.",
    "Seven Questions About The Recent Oil Price Slump *",
    "Greece: Past Critiques and the Path Forward",
    "Greece: A Credible Deal Will Require Difficult Decisions By All Sides",
    "Act Local, Solve Global: The $5.3 Trillion Energy Subsidy Problem",
    "Contours of Macroeconomic Policy in the Future",
    "Sovereign Wealth Funds in the New Era of Oil",
    "Growth’s Secret Weapon: The Poor and the Middle Class",
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    "How Much Finance Is Too Much: Stability, Growth & Emerging Markets",
    "Note: \"* published in late December 2014 but we decided to grandfather it in.\"",
    "The Price of Oil and the Price of Carbon",
    "(Yet) Another Year of Subpar Growth: Latin America and the Caribbean in 2015",
    "Canada’s Financial Sector: How to Enhance its Resilience",
    "From the editors of iMFdirect: wishes for a peaceful, intriguing and insightful 2016.",
    "[Olivier Blanchard](http://blogs.imf.org/bloggers/olivier-blanchard/)",
    "[Vitor Gaspar](http://blogs.imf.org/bloggers/vitor-gaspar/)",
    "[Seven Questions About The Recent Oil Price Slump](http://blogs.imf.org/2014/12/22/seven-questions-about-the-recent-oil-price-slump/)",
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    "[Act Local, Solve Global: The $5.3 Trillion Energy Subsidy Problem](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/05/18/act-local-solve-global-the-5-3-trillion-energy-subsidy-problem/)",
    "[Contours of Macroeconomic Policy in the Future](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/04/02/contours-of-macroeconomic-policy-in-the-future/)",
    "[Sovereign Wealth Funds in the New Era of Oil](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/10/26/sovereign-wealth-funds-in-the-new-era-of-oil/)",
    "[Growth’s Secret Weapon: The Poor and the Middle Class](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/06/15/growths-secret-weapon-the-poor-and-the-middle-class/)",
    "[Metals and Oil: A Tale of Two Commodities](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/09/14/metals-and-oil-a-tale-of-two-commodities/)",
    "[Ten Take Aways from the “Rethinking Macro Policy: Progress or Confusion?”](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/05/01/ten-take-aways-from-the-rethinking-macro-policy-progress-or-confusion/)",
    "[How Much Finance Is Too Much: Stability, Growth & Emerging Markets](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/05/04/how-much-finance-is-too-much-stability-growth-emerging-markets/)",
    "[The Price of Oil and the Price of Carbon](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/12/02/the-price-of-oil-and-the-price-of-carbon/)",
    "[(Yet) Another Year of Subpar Growth: Latin America and the Caribbean in 2015](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/01/21/yet-another-year-of-subpar-growth-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-in-2015/)",
    "[Canada’s Financial Sector: How to Enhance its Resilience](http://blogs.imf.org/2015/03/09/canadas-financial-sector-how-to-enhance-its-resilience/)"
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