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  "title": "Kenya: Staff Report for the 2003 Article IV Consultation",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, July 9, 2003",
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  "summary": "Kenya showed low economic performance owing to governance problems and the slow pace of structural reforms. Executive Directors emphasized the need to lower public debt and tighten fiscal and monetary policies.",
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      "heading": "Summary findings",
      "content": "- Kenya showed low economic performance owing to governance problems and the slow pace of structural reforms.\n- Executive Directors emphasized the need to lower public debt and tighten fiscal and monetary policies.\n- The Executive Directors commended the anticorruption strategy and advised to improve governance, reform the tax system, and ensure fiscal sustainability.\n- They stressed the need to align the Poverty Reduction Strategy Program (PRSP) to the budget and to strengthen public expenditure policy and banking supervision.\n- They welcomed the decision of implementing the full PRSP and emphasized the need to implement the program without interruption."
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      "heading": "Major policy recommendations",
      "content": "- Lower public debt.\n- Tighten fiscal policy.\n- Tighten monetary policy.\n- Improve governance and advance anticorruption measures.\n- Reform the tax system.\n- Ensure fiscal sustainability.\n- Align the Poverty Reduction Strategy Program (PRSP) to the budget.\n- Strengthen public expenditure policy.\n- Strengthen banking supervision.\n- Implement the full PRSP without interruption."
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      "content": "- Subject: Commercial banks, Expenditure, External debt, Financial institutions, Imports, International trade, Public debt\n- Keywords: Anticorruption legislation, borrowing requirement, Commercial banks, corruption legislation, CR, donor assistance, East Africa, government, Imports, ISCR, legislation, staff projection, supplementary budget\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr03199\n  - cr03199 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr03199 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: July 9, 2003",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451821079.002",
    "Kenya showed low economic performance owing to governance problems and the slow pace of structural reforms.",
    "Executive Directors emphasized the need to lower public debt and tighten fiscal and monetary policies.",
    "The Executive Directors commended the anticorruption strategy and advised to improve governance, reform the tax system, and ensure fiscal sustainability.",
    "They stressed the need to align the Poverty Reduction Strategy Program (PRSP) to the budget and to strengthen public expenditure policy and banking supervision.",
    "They welcomed the decision of implementing the full PRSP and emphasized the need to implement the program without interruption.",
    "Lower public debt.",
    "Tighten fiscal policy.",
    "Tighten monetary policy.",
    "Improve governance and advance anticorruption measures.",
    "Reform the tax system.",
    "Ensure fiscal sustainability.",
    "Align the Poverty Reduction Strategy Program (PRSP) to the budget.",
    "Strengthen public expenditure policy.",
    "Strengthen banking supervision.",
    "Implement the full PRSP without interruption.",
    "Subject: Commercial banks, Expenditure, External debt, Financial institutions, Imports, International trade, Public debt",
    "Keywords: Anticorruption legislation, borrowing requirement, Commercial banks, corruption legislation, CR, donor assistance, East Africa, government, Imports, ISCR, legislation, staff projection, supplementary budget",
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