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  "title": "Denmark: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, August 26, 1999",
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  "summary": "This 1999 Article IV Consultation highlights that the Danish economy continued to perform well in 1997–98. Real GDP growth of about 3 percent remained above potential and unemployment fell to 6 percent, less than half its level only five years earlier.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- The Danish economy continued to perform well in 1997–98.\n- Real GDP growth of about 3 percent remained above potential.\n- Unemployment fell to 6 percent, less than half its level only five years earlier.\n- Consumer price inflation remained subdued at slightly below 2 percent.\n- The external current account balance showed a deficit—for the first time since 1989—of 1.4 percent of GDP.\n- Wage inflation was 4½ percent, remaining higher than in the main trading partner countries."
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      "heading": "Key economic indicators (as reported)",
      "content": "- Real GDP growth: about 3 percent.\n- Unemployment rate: 6 percent.\n- Consumer price inflation: slightly below 2 percent.\n- Current account balance: deficit of 1.4 percent of GDP.\n- Wage inflation: 4½ percent."
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      "heading": "Analysis and risks highlighted",
      "content": "- Growth above potential contributed to increasingly evident capacity constraints.\n- The emergence of a current account deficit marked the first external deficit since 1989, signaling a shift in external balances.\n- Elevated wage inflation relative to main trading partners posed competitiveness and inflationary risks."
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      "heading": "Notes",
      "content": "- Included with the Staff Report are the text of Public Information Notice No. 99/83--IMF Concludes Article IV Consultation with Denmark and a Statement by Kai Aaen Hansen, Executive Director, on August 5, 1999.\n- Report length: 41 pages; Series: Country Report No. 1999/088; Issue: 088; Volume: 1999; ISBN: 9781451811032; DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451811032.002\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Denmark: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation\", IMF Staff Country Reports 1999, 088 (1999).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Denmark: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation- ISCR/99/88\n  - Denmark: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation- ISCR/99/88 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Denmark: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation- ISCR/99/88 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Statement by Kai Aaen Hansen, Executive Director for Denmark, August 5, 1999\n  - Statement by Kai Aaen Hansen, Executive Director for Denmark, August 5, 1999 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Statement by Kai Aaen Hansen, Executive Director for Denmark, August 5, 1999 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: August 26, 1999",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451811032.002",
    "The Danish economy continued to perform well in 1997–98.",
    "Real GDP growth of about 3 percent remained above potential.",
    "Unemployment fell to 6 percent, less than half its level only five years earlier.",
    "Consumer price inflation remained subdued at slightly below 2 percent.",
    "The external current account balance showed a deficit—for the first time since 1989—of 1.4 percent of GDP.",
    "Wage inflation was 4½ percent, remaining higher than in the main trading partner countries.",
    "Real GDP growth: about 3 percent.",
    "Unemployment rate: 6 percent.",
    "Consumer price inflation: slightly below 2 percent.",
    "Current account balance: deficit of 1.4 percent of GDP.",
    "Wage inflation: 4½ percent.",
    "Growth above potential contributed to increasingly evident capacity constraints.",
    "The emergence of a current account deficit marked the first external deficit since 1989, signaling a shift in external balances.",
    "Elevated wage inflation relative to main trading partners posed competitiveness and inflationary risks.",
    "Included with the Staff Report are the text of Public Information Notice No. 99/83--IMF Concludes Article IV Consultation with Denmark and a Statement by Kai Aaen Hansen, Executive Director, on August 5, 1999.",
    "Report length: 41 pages; Series: Country Report No. 1999/088; Issue: 088; Volume: 1999; ISBN: 9781451811032; DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451811032.002",
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