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  "title": "Ireland: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, August 20, 1999",
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  "summary": "This 1999 Article IV Consultation highlights that Ireland’s economic performance in recent years has been exceptionally strong. Output and employment have been growing much faster than in the rest of Europe. Real GDP growth averaged 7.",
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      "content": "- Ireland’s economic performance in recent years has been described as \"exceptionally strong.\"\n- Output and employment growth have been \"much faster than in the rest of Europe.\"\n- Real GDP growth averaged 7.5 percent per year in 1993–98.\n- Growth reflected a sharp increase in capital accumulation, \"fueled in part by foreign direct investment.\"\n- Expansion of the skilled labor force contributed to growth through:\n  - young entrants,\n  - increasing female participation,\n  - a reversal of net emigration.\n- Inflation has remained subdued.\n- Public finances have improved significantly.\n- The external current account has remained in surplus."
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      "content": "- Fiscal policy\n- Fiscal stance\n- Inflation\n- Labor\n- Prices\n- Production\n- Productivity\n- Wage adjustments\n- Wages"
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      "content": "- consumer price inflation\n- CR\n- EU-harmonized index\n- Europe\n- Fiscal stance\n- Global\n- Inflation\n- ISCR\n- pension liability\n- policy priority\n- price\n- Productivity\n- service price inflation\n- staff appraisal\n- Wage adjustments\n- Wages\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. Ireland: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation (IMF Staff Country Reports 1999, 087).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Ireland: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation / ISCR/99/87\n  - Ireland: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation / ISCR/99/87 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Ireland: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation / ISCR/99/87 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: August 20, 1999",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451818710.002",
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    "Real GDP growth averaged 7.5 percent per year in 1993–98.",
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