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  "title": "Australia: 2008 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Australia",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, September 23, 2008",
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  "summary": "The Article IV Consultation discusses that recently a commodity price boom, driven by robust global demand, has pushed the Australian economy up against capacity constraints.",
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      "content": "- Recently a commodity price boom, driven by robust global demand, has pushed the Australian economy up against capacity constraints.\n- Executive Directors considered that the sound macroeconomic framework should permit Australia to weather the global downturn and contain inflationary pressures.\n- The authorities were encouraged to take advantage of the positive macroeconomic performance to advance structural reforms."
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      "content": "- Banks are adjusting the structure of their funding in response to the turmoil:\n  - increasing liquidity, and\n  - lengthening the maturity of their funding."
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      "content": "- Continue to rely on the established macroeconomic framework to:\n  - help Australia withstand the global downturn, and\n  - contain inflationary pressures.\n- Advance structural reforms while macroeconomic performance remains positive."
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      "heading": "Subjects and keywords (as described in the report)",
      "content": "- Subjects: Banking, Commodity prices, Currencies, External debt, Inflation, International trade, Money, Prices, Terms of trade\n- Keywords: commodity price boom, Commodity prices, CR, Currencies, deficit, equilibrium level, Global, Inflation, inflation pressure, ISCR, rate, RBA move, reserve bank of Australia, Terms of trade, vis nonresident\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr08312 - Executive Summary\n  - cr08312 - Executive Summary (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr08312 - Executive Summary (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451802191.002",
    "Recently a commodity price boom, driven by robust global demand, has pushed the Australian economy up against capacity constraints.",
    "Executive Directors considered that the sound macroeconomic framework should permit Australia to weather the global downturn and contain inflationary pressures.",
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    "Subjects: Banking, Commodity prices, Currencies, External debt, Inflation, International trade, Money, Prices, Terms of trade",
    "Keywords: commodity price boom, Commodity prices, CR, Currencies, deficit, equilibrium level, Global, Inflation, inflation pressure, ISCR, rate, RBA move, reserve bank of Australia, Terms of trade, vis nonresident",
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