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  "title": "Norway: Staff Report for the 2000 Article IV Consultation",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, February 5, 2001",
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      "content": "- Executive Directors stressed the need to:\n  - \"tighten fiscal and monetary policies\"\n  - \"accelerate structural reforms\"\n  - \"increase labor supply\"\n  - \"restrain public expenditure\"\n  - \"move forward with privatization initiatives\""
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829679.002",
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