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  "title": "Jamaica: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation",
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  "summary": "Jamaica has achieved considerable success in reducing inflation, restructuring the financial system after the crisis in 1995–96, and further liberalizing the economy through tariff reduction and privatization.",
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      "heading": "Key findings and assessment",
      "content": "- Jamaica achieved considerable success in reducing inflation.\n- The financial system was restructured following the crisis in 1995–96.\n- Further liberalization of the economy occurred through tariff reduction and privatization.\n- The significant progress in structural reform made over recent years as well as the government’s determination to continue is commendable."
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      "heading": "Policy recommendations and staff advice",
      "content": "- The government is urged to strengthen efforts to put the economy on a less vulnerable path by:\n  - a stronger fiscal adjustment supported by wage restraint.\n  - a more market-determined exchange rate.\n  - an acceleration of structural reforms."
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      "heading": "Thematic coverage (subjects emphasized)",
      "content": "- Banking\n- Economic sectors\n- Exchange rates\n- External debt\n- Financial services\n- Foreign exchange\n- Public debt\n- Public sector\n- Real interest rates"
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      "content": "- Publication title: Jamaica: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation\n- Publication date: January 25, 2000\n- Pages: 61\n- Series: Country Report No. 2000/008\n- Issue: 008\n- Volume: 2000\n- Stock No: 1JAMEA0012000\n- ISBN: 9781451820072\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451820072.002\n- Notes: Included with the Staff Report are the text of Public Information Notice No. 00/03--IMF Concludes Article IV Consultation with Jamaica and a Statement by Mr. Thomas A. Bernes, Executive Director, on January 10, 2000.\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Jamaica: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2000, 008 (2000).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Jamaica: Staff Report for the 199Article IV Consultation - ISCR/00/8\n  - Jamaica: Staff Report for the 199Article IV Consultation - ISCR/00/8 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Jamaica: Staff Report for the 199Article IV Consultation - ISCR/00/8 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Jamaica:  Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation - January 10, 2000\n  - Jamaica:  Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation - January 10, 2000 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Jamaica:  Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation - January 10, 2000 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Further liberalization of the economy occurred through tariff reduction and privatization.",
    "The significant progress in structural reform made over recent years as well as the government’s determination to continue is commendable.",
    "The government is urged to strengthen efforts to put the economy on a less vulnerable path by:",
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    "ISSN: 1934-7685",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451820072.002",
    "Notes: Included with the Staff Report are the text of Public Information Notice No. 00/03--IMF Concludes Article IV Consultation with Jamaica and a Statement by Mr. Thomas A. Bernes, Executive Director, on January 10, 2000.",
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