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  "title": "Morocco: Staff Report for the 2001 Article IV Consultation",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, November 13, 2001",
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  "summary": "Morocco has been able to establish macroeconomic stability and industrial country levels of inflation, despite adverse weather conditions and terms-of-trade developments. Executive Directors welcomed these developments, and stressed the need to reduce unemployment and poverty.",
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      "heading": "Executive summary",
      "content": "- Morocco has been able to establish macroeconomic stability and industrial country levels of inflation, despite adverse weather conditions and terms-of-trade developments.\n- Executive Directors welcomed these developments, and stressed the need to reduce unemployment and poverty.\n- They appreciated the robust banking system, and emphasized the need to tighten macroeconomic policies and accelerate structural reforms.\n- They commended the efforts taken in improving the timeliness and dissemination of statistical data, and agreed to undertake a Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on statistics."
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      "heading": "Major findings and analysis",
      "content": "- Macroeconomic stability achieved alongside industrial country levels of inflation, despite adverse weather and terms-of-trade developments.\n- Banking system characterized as robust by Executive Directors.\n- Ongoing concerns: unemployment and poverty require further action.\n- Statistical system: improvements in timeliness and dissemination noted; an ROSC (Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes) on statistics was agreed."
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      "heading": "Policy recommendations and priorities",
      "content": "- Tighten macroeconomic policies.\n- Accelerate structural reforms.\n- Continue efforts to reduce unemployment and poverty.\n- Improve and maintain statistical timeliness and dissemination; complete the agreed Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on statistics."
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      "heading": "Metadata and classification",
      "content": "- Subject: Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Public debt, Revenue administration, Tariffs, Taxes\n- Keywords: authorities' effort, Bank Al-Maghrib, CR, exchange rate, Fiscal stance, GDP, government, ISCR, liberalization, Maghreb, Morocco, nonagricultural GDP growth, price, privatization proceeds, Tariffs\n- Publication date: November 13, 2001\n- Pages: 69\n- Volume: 2001\n- Issue: 205\n- Series: Country Report No. 2001/205\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451824674.002\n- Stock No: 1MAREA0012001\n- ISBN: 9781451824674\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Morocco: Staff Report for the 2001 Article IV Consultation\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2001, 205 (2001).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr01205\n  - cr01205 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr01205 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: November 13, 2001",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451824674.002",
    "Morocco has been able to establish macroeconomic stability and industrial country levels of inflation, despite adverse weather conditions and terms-of-trade developments.",
    "Executive Directors welcomed these developments, and stressed the need to reduce unemployment and poverty.",
    "They appreciated the robust banking system, and emphasized the need to tighten macroeconomic policies and accelerate structural reforms.",
    "They commended the efforts taken in improving the timeliness and dissemination of statistical data, and agreed to undertake a Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on statistics.",
    "Macroeconomic stability achieved alongside industrial country levels of inflation, despite adverse weather and terms-of-trade developments.",
    "Banking system characterized as robust by Executive Directors.",
    "Ongoing concerns: unemployment and poverty require further action.",
    "Statistical system: improvements in timeliness and dissemination noted; an ROSC (Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes) on statistics was agreed.",
    "Tighten macroeconomic policies.",
    "Accelerate structural reforms.",
    "Continue efforts to reduce unemployment and poverty.",
    "Improve and maintain statistical timeliness and dissemination; complete the agreed Report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on statistics.",
    "Subject: Expenditure, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Public debt, Revenue administration, Tariffs, Taxes",
    "Keywords: authorities' effort, Bank Al-Maghrib, CR, exchange rate, Fiscal stance, GDP, government, ISCR, liberalization, Maghreb, Morocco, nonagricultural GDP growth, price, privatization proceeds, Tariffs",
    "Publication date: November 13, 2001",
    "Pages: 69",
    "Volume: 2001",
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451824674.002",
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