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  "title": "Bangladesh: Staff Report for the 2011 Article IV Consultation",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, November 3, 2011",
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  "summary": "Growth performance in Bangladesh is improving, but macroeconomic imbalances have also emerged. Medium-term growth targets are likely to intensify macroeconomic pressures if not managed well.",
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      "heading": "Summary findings",
      "content": "- Growth performance in Bangladesh is improving, but macroeconomic imbalances have emerged.\n- Medium-term growth targets are likely to intensify macroeconomic pressures if not managed well.\n- Longer-term growth prospects depend on generating sufficient resources to relieve infrastructure bottlenecks and ensuring a competitive business environment focused on labor-intensive activities.\n- There is a need to build on the momentum of recent reforms.\n- To ensure a stable macroeconomic environment, vigilance is required foremost on the fiscal front.\n- The focus is on accelerating growth-promoting structural reforms, while ensuring a stable macroeconomic environment."
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      "heading": "Risks and macroeconomic pressures",
      "content": "- Medium-term growth targets could intensify macroeconomic pressures.\n- Emerging macroeconomic imbalances are a central concern.\n- Fiscal vigilance is emphasized as the foremost requirement to maintain macroeconomic stability."
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      "content": "- Accelerate growth-promoting structural reforms.\n- Generate sufficient resources to relieve infrastructure bottlenecks.\n- Ensure a competitive business environment focused on labor-intensive activities.\n- Maintain strict fiscal vigilance to preserve macroeconomic stability."
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    "Published: November 3, 2011",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781463923907.002",
    "Growth performance in Bangladesh is improving, but macroeconomic imbalances have emerged.",
    "Medium-term growth targets are likely to intensify macroeconomic pressures if not managed well.",
    "Longer-term growth prospects depend on generating sufficient resources to relieve infrastructure bottlenecks and ensuring a competitive business environment focused on labor-intensive activities.",
    "There is a need to build on the momentum of recent reforms.",
    "To ensure a stable macroeconomic environment, vigilance is required foremost on the fiscal front.",
    "The focus is on accelerating growth-promoting structural reforms, while ensuring a stable macroeconomic environment.",
    "Medium-term growth targets could intensify macroeconomic pressures.",
    "Emerging macroeconomic imbalances are a central concern.",
    "Fiscal vigilance is emphasized as the foremost requirement to maintain macroeconomic stability.",
    "Accelerate growth-promoting structural reforms.",
    "Generate sufficient resources to relieve infrastructure bottlenecks.",
    "Ensure a competitive business environment focused on labor-intensive activities.",
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