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  "title": "Malta: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation",
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  "summary": "This 1999 Article IV Consultation highlights that real GDP growth in Malta in 1997 and 1998 continued the declining trend. The contribution to demand from net exports offset weaker growth of real consumption and investment.",
  "publishDate": "1999-07-14",
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      "heading": "Executive summary and macroeconomic findings",
      "content": "- Real GDP growth in Malta in 1997 and 1998 continued the declining trend.\n- Net exports contributed to demand and offset weaker growth of real consumption and investment.\n- Export volumes rose by 3 percent and 5 percent in 1997 and 1998, respectively; machinery exports performed particularly strongly.\n- Import volumes contracted in 1997 by 4 percent before rising by 2½ percent in 1998.\n- Import behavior mirrored that of domestic demand, which slowed as the growth of household consumption fell to below 1 percent in 1997 and 1998."
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      "heading": "Policy-related themes and subject areas",
      "content": "- Subject areas covered: Budget planning and preparation, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Government debt management, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM).\n- Keywords included: Budget planning and preparation, CR, current account, deficit, GDP, GDP ratio, Government debt management, ISCR, liberalization, policy performance, privatization unit, staff definition."
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      "content": "- Publication title: Malta: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation\n- Publication date: July 14, 1999\n- Pages: 40\n- Volume: 1999\n- Issue: 060\n- Series: Country Report No. 1999/060\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451826562.002\n- Stock No: 1MLTEA0011999\n- ISBN: 9781451826562\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Malta: Staff Report for the 1999 Article IV Consultation\", IMF Staff Country Reports 1999, 060 (1999).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Cr9960 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Stm9960 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2016/12/30/malta-staff-report-for-the-1999-article-iv-consultation-3104"
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451826562.002",
    "Real GDP growth in Malta in 1997 and 1998 continued the declining trend.",
    "Net exports contributed to demand and offset weaker growth of real consumption and investment.",
    "Export volumes rose by 3 percent and 5 percent in 1997 and 1998, respectively; machinery exports performed particularly strongly.",
    "Import volumes contracted in 1997 by 4 percent before rising by 2½ percent in 1998.",
    "Import behavior mirrored that of domestic demand, which slowed as the growth of household consumption fell to below 1 percent in 1997 and 1998.",
    "Subject areas covered: Budget planning and preparation, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Government debt management, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM).",
    "Keywords included: Budget planning and preparation, CR, current account, deficit, GDP, GDP ratio, Government debt management, ISCR, liberalization, policy performance, privatization unit, staff definition.",
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