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  "title": "France: Staff Report for the 2001 Article IV Consultation",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, November 5, 2001",
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  "summary": "The buoyant economic record is attributable to a favorable external environment; supportive monetary conditions; protracted wage moderation; gradual labor market reforms; and sizable cuts in tax rates and social security contributions.",
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      "heading": "Economic performance and drivers",
      "content": "- The buoyant economic record is attributable to:\n  - a favorable external environment;\n  - supportive monetary conditions;\n  - protracted wage moderation;\n  - gradual labor market reforms; and\n  - sizable cuts in tax rates and social security contributions.\n- Subject tags in the report: Employment, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Labor, Labor markets.\n- Keywords in the report include: authorities' intention, consumer confidence, CR, deficit, Employment, Fiscal stance, Global, government, growth to a rate, higher-than-anticipated expenditure pressure, ISCR, labor market, Labor markets, outturn, stronger-than-expected consumption."
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      "heading": "Fiscal stance, objectives, and framework",
      "content": "- The government reasserted its intention to achieve fiscal balance and substantially lower the public debt-to-gross domestic product ratio over the long term.\n- To reach these fiscal goals, the report emphasizes the need to:\n  - tackle civil service reform;\n  - tackle health care reform;\n  - tackle pension reform; and\n  - strengthen the framework for fiscal policy and focus it more on binding medium-term expenditure norms."
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      "heading": "Policy recommendations and reform priorities",
      "content": "- Priority reform areas identified:\n  - Civil service reform.\n  - Health care reform.\n  - Pension reform.\n  - Strengthening fiscal policy framework with emphasis on binding medium-term expenditure norms.\n- Underlying policy rationale:\n  - Structural reforms combined with fiscal framework tightening are presented as necessary to translate favorable cyclical and monetary conditions into durable reductions in public debt and sustainable fiscal balance.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr01199\n  - cr01199 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr01199 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: November 5, 2001",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451813616.002",
    "The buoyant economic record is attributable to:",
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