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  "title": "West Bank and Gaza Strip: Recent Economic Developments and Prospects and Progress in Institution Building: Background Paper Issued in Connection with the 1995 Article IV Consultation with Israel",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, November 7, 1995",
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  "summary": "This paper reviews institutional arrangements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS), the structural features of the economy, and macroeconomic developments and prospects during the 1990s.",
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      "heading": "Institutional arrangements and structural features",
      "content": "- Reviews institutional arrangements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS).\n- Examines structural features of the WBGS economy during the 1990s."
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    {
      "heading": "Macroeconomic developments and prospects (1990s)",
      "content": "- Reviews macroeconomic developments and prospects during the 1990s.\n- Discusses real GNP and related macroeconomic indicators as part of the assessment (term preserved from source: \"real GNP\")."
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    {
      "heading": "IMF technical assistance and capacity building",
      "content": "- Describes technical assistance provided by IMF staff in response to requests from the Palestinian Authority and the donor community in the areas of:\n  - fiscal policy and administration\n  - banking\n  - statistics\n  - training"
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    {
      "heading": "IMF–World Bank collaboration and donors’ financial assistance",
      "content": "- Presents a review of IMF–World Bank collaboration.\n- Presents a review of donors’ financial assistance to the WBGS."
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    {
      "heading": "Subject areas covered",
      "content": "- Banking\n- Budget planning and preparation\n- Expenditure\n- Labor\n- National accounts\n- Private investment\n- Public financial management (PFM)\n- Public investment spending"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Keywords (as listed)",
      "content": "- Budget planning and preparation\n- CR\n- donor community\n- Eastern Europe\n- fund staff\n- government\n- ISCR\n- PA authority\n- PA Finance Ministry\n- PA policy\n- PA revenue\n- Private investment\n- private sector investment\n- Public investment spending\n- real GNP\n- staff"
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    "Published: November 7, 1995",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451840629.002",
    "Reviews institutional arrangements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS).",
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