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  "title": "Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands: Selected Issues",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, October 13, 1998",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper examines the strengthening of the external current account for the Netherlands. It reviews this issue, concluding that the change in corporate profitability in a new wage environment was a crucial element, alongside fiscal consolidation, in turning around the current accou",
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      "content": "- The paper examines the strengthening of the external current account for the Netherlands.\n- It concludes that the change in corporate profitability in a new wage environment was a crucial element in turning around the current account.\n- Fiscal consolidation is identified alongside corporate profitability changes as a key element in the turnaround.\n- The current account \"has now moved into strong surplus\" (language preserved from source)."
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      "content": "- Subjects: Balance of payments, Banking, Current account, Economic sectors, Exchange rates, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Financial sector, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Insurance companies, Mortgages, Pension spending, Prices\n- Keywords: bank, CR, Current account, Europe, exchange rate indicator, Exchange rates, export market growth, Financial sector, Global, government saving surplus, Inflation, Insurance companies, interest rate, investment funds, ISCR, Mortgages, Pension spending, saving, saving surplus, saving-investment balance, saving-investment perspective, surplus, variability vis-à-vis Germany\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Kingdom of the Netherlands - Netherlands: Selected Issues - ISCR/98/102\n  - Kingdom of the Netherlands - Netherlands: Selected Issues - ISCR/98/102 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Kingdom of the Netherlands - Netherlands: Selected Issues - ISCR/98/102 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: October 13, 1998",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829327.002",
    "The paper examines the strengthening of the external current account for the Netherlands.",
    "It concludes that the change in corporate profitability in a new wage environment was a crucial element in turning around the current account.",
    "Fiscal consolidation is identified alongside corporate profitability changes as a key element in the turnaround.",
    "The current account \"has now moved into strong surplus\" (language preserved from source).",
    "The paper analyzes the performance of the financial sector.",
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    "The paper reviews the experience of a decade and a half in a de facto monetary union for the Netherlands.",
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    "Keywords: bank, CR, Current account, Europe, exchange rate indicator, Exchange rates, export market growth, Financial sector, Global, government saving surplus, Inflation, Insurance companies, interest rate, investment funds, ISCR, Mortgages, Pension spending, saving, saving surplus, saving-investment balance, saving-investment perspective, surplus, variability vis-à-vis Germany",
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