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  "title": "Economics After the Great Recession",
  "publication": "IMF Blog, October 25, 2016",
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      "heading": "Event and participants",
      "content": "- Publication: iMFdirect\n- Date: October 25, 2016\n- Event: The IMF’s Annual Research Conference is coming up November 3 and 4\n- Participants highlighted:\n  - Maurice Obstfeld — the IMF’s Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department\n  - Olivier Blanchard — the IMF’s former Economic Counsellor and now a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute in Washington, D.C.\n- Media: Video conversation [embedded YouTube link in source]"
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      "heading": "Central issue highlighted",
      "content": "- Low potential growth in advanced economies is identified as the main issue facing the global economy."
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      "heading": "Factors and legacies discussed",
      "content": "- Blanchard’s assessment:\n  - Cannot blame everything on the crisis; other contributors include:\n    - The slowdown in productivity growth\n    - Demographics\n  - These trends must be addressed alongside the legacies from the great recession"
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      "heading": "Conference focus and objectives",
      "content": "- The conference will:\n  - Revisit traditional macroeconomic issues\n  - Bring in new issues—inequality and globalization—to shed light on current conditions and future directions\n  - Explore Olivier Blanchard's legacy\n  - Survey the new issues\n  - Point the way forward to new solutions\n\nSource: iMFdirect, October 25, 2016 — \"Economics After the Great Recession\"\n\n---\n\n\n References\n\n- Annual Research Conference\n- video\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/blogs/articles/2016/10/25/economics-after-the-great-recession"
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    "Published: October 25, 2016",
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    "Date: October 25, 2016",
    "Event: The IMF’s Annual Research Conference is coming up November 3 and 4",
    "Participants highlighted:",
    "Media: Video conversation [embedded YouTube link in source]",
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    "Blanchard’s assessment:",
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