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  "title": "Gabon: Staff Report for the 2001 Article IV Consultation",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, May 3, 2002",
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  "summary": "This 2001 Article IV Consultation highlights that the fiscal and structural reform efforts in Gabon continued during 2001 under the government’s program supported by an 18-month Stand-by Arrangement, approved on October 23, 2000.",
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      "heading": "Executive summary and program context",
      "content": "- Fiscal and structural reform efforts in Gabon continued during 2001 under the government’s program supported by an 18-month Stand-by Arrangement, approved on October 23, 2000.\n- Publication date: May 3, 2002.\n- Series and identifiers:\n  - Pages: 82\n  - Volume: 2002\n  - DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451813906.002\n  - Issue: 095\n  - Series: Country Report No. 2002/095\n  - Stock No: 1GABEA0022002\n  - ISBN: 9781451813906\n  - ISSN: 1934-7685"
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      "heading": "Economic performance and sectoral contributions",
      "content": "- Non-oil economic activity:\n  - Rose by 4 percent in 2001.\n  - Followed a severe contraction in 1999 and a moderate recovery in 2000.\n- Main sectors contributing to growth:\n  - Services\n  - Agriculture\n  - Wood processing"
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      "content": "- Private investment picked up as confidence strengthened further.\n- Improvement in investor confidence was helped by substantial repayments of government domestic debt."
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      "content": "- Subject: Expenditure, External debt, Public debt, Taxes\n- Keywords: Africa, Arrears, authority, consumer price inflation, corruption law, CR, gas and mining taxes, government indebtedness, government use, ISCR, Oil, payments arrears, petroleum audit, staff appraisal, Sub-Saharan Africa\n\nSource: Gabon: Staff Report for the 2001 Article IV Consultation (May 3, 2002), IMF; DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451813906.002\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr0295\n  - cr0295 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr0295 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451813906.002",
    "Fiscal and structural reform efforts in Gabon continued during 2001 under the government’s program supported by an 18-month Stand-by Arrangement, approved on October 23, 2000.",
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    "Subject: Expenditure, External debt, Public debt, Taxes",
    "Keywords: Africa, Arrears, authority, consumer price inflation, corruption law, CR, gas and mining taxes, government indebtedness, government use, ISCR, Oil, payments arrears, petroleum audit, staff appraisal, Sub-Saharan Africa",
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