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  "title": "IMF World Economic Outlook",
  "publication": "IMF Podcasts, October 4, 2016",
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  "summary": "In this podcast, IMF Chief Economist Maurice Obstfeld says growth has been too slow for too long.",
  "publishDate": "2016-10-04",
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      "heading": "Podcast overview",
      "content": "- Publication: IMF World Economic Outlook\n- Date: October 4, 2016\n- Format: Podcast episode\n- Featured speaker: Maurice Obstfeld, IMF Chief Economic Counselor\n- Producer / Behind the mic: Bruce Edwards, International Monetary Fund; Rhoda Metcalfe, independent journalist and audio producer\n- Distribution platforms listed: Libsyn; Spotify; YouTube; Soundcloud; Apple"
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      "heading": "Key findings and projections from the World Economic Outlook",
      "content": "- The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook projects global growth at 3.1 percent in 2016.\n- The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook projects global growth at 3.4 percent in 2017.\n- Maurice Obstfeld states that growth \"has been too slow for too long.\""
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      "heading": "Thematic emphasis and framing",
      "content": "- Slow global growth: the episode emphasizes prolonged weak growth conditions.\n- Role of economists: the producer, Bruce Edwards, frames economists as having an important role in solving the world's problems and aims to showcase IMF research through the podcast."
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