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  "title": "Tunisia: Staff Report for the Article IV Consultation",
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  "summary": "This 1999 Article IV Consultation highlights that despite a contraction of agricultural production, Tunisia’s GDP grew by 5 percent in 1998. Gross fixed capital formation (27.",
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      "heading": "Summary findings",
      "content": "- Despite a contraction of agricultural production, Tunisia’s GDP grew by 5 percent in 1998.\n- Gross fixed capital formation was 27.5 percent of GDP and was the most dynamic component of aggregate demand, notably in Tunisia’s traditional and new export sectors.\n- The external current account deficit widened only slightly to 3.4 percent of GDP owing to a commensurate increase in the saving rate.\n- Growth of exports of goods and services slowed primarily owing to a decline in sales of crude oil and food products."
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      "heading": "Key statistics and figures",
      "content": "- GDP growth in 1998: 5 percent\n- Gross fixed capital formation: 27.5 percent of GDP\n- External current account deficit: 3.4 percent of GDP\n- Pages: 65\n- Volume: 1999\n- Issue: 104\n- Series: Country Report No. 1999/104\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451837766.002\n- Stock No: 1TUNEA0011999\n- ISBN: 9781451837766\n- ISSN: 1934-7685"
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      "heading": "Thematic coverage",
      "content": "- Banking\n- Commercial banks\n- Economic sectors\n- Exports\n- External debt\n- Financial institutions\n- International trade\n- Privatization\n- Public enterprises"
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      "heading": "Keywords and analytical focus",
      "content": "- banking system\n- Commercial banks\n- CR\n- deficit\n- economic statistics\n- Europe\n- exchange rate\n- Exports\n- government\n- IMF staff estimate\n- inflation objective\n- interest rate\n- ISCR\n- money market\n- private sector\n- Privatization\n- Public enterprises\n- short-term debt"
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      "content": "- Contains the text of Public Information Notice No. 99/90--IMF Concludes Article IV Consultation with Tunisia.\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Tunisia: Staff Report for the Article IV Consultation\", IMF Staff Country Reports 1999, 104 (1999), DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451837766.002.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Tunisia: Staff Report for the Article IV Consultation - ISCR/99/104\n  - Tunisia: Staff Report for the Article IV Consultation - ISCR/99/104 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Tunisia: Staff Report for the Article IV Consultation - ISCR/99/104 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451837766.002",
    "Despite a contraction of agricultural production, Tunisia’s GDP grew by 5 percent in 1998.",
    "Gross fixed capital formation was 27.5 percent of GDP and was the most dynamic component of aggregate demand, notably in Tunisia’s traditional and new export sectors.",
    "The external current account deficit widened only slightly to 3.4 percent of GDP owing to a commensurate increase in the saving rate.",
    "Growth of exports of goods and services slowed primarily owing to a decline in sales of crude oil and food products.",
    "GDP growth in 1998: 5 percent",
    "Gross fixed capital formation: 27.5 percent of GDP",
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    "Pages: 65",
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    "Stock No: 1TUNEA0011999",
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