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  "title": "Bolivia: 2016 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Bolivia",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, December 22, 2016",
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  "summary": "This 2016 Article IV Consultation highlights Bolivia’s substantial economic and social progress, boosted by the commodity boom. Growth has been strong, averaging about 5 percent since 2006, and poverty has fallen by a third.",
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      "content": "- Bolivia experienced substantial economic and social progress, boosted by the commodity boom.\n- Growth has been strong, averaging about 5 percent since 2006.\n- Poverty has fallen by a third.\n- Authorities built up sizable buffers and largely dedollarized the financial system.\n- Real GDP growth is projected at 3.7 percent in 2016.\n- In the medium term, growth is expected to converge toward 3.5 percent, consistent with the new commodity price normal.\n- Persistent twin deficits are noted as an ongoing structural issue."
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      "content": "- Real GDP growth: projected at 3.7 percent in 2016.\n- Medium-term growth projection: converge toward 3.5 percent.\n- Historical growth average: about 5 percent since 2006.\n- Poverty reduction: fallen by a third.\n- Financial system: largely dedollarized.\n- Fiscal/sectoral condition: sizable buffers built; persistent twin deficits."
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      "content": "- The report links Bolivia’s advances in growth and poverty reduction to the commodity boom.\n- The medium-term outlook reflects adjustment to a \"new commodity price normal.\"\n- Despite solid growth by regional standards in 2016, structural vulnerabilities remain via twin deficits."
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      "content": "- Banking\n- Commodity prices\n- Credit\n- Economic sectors\n- Money\n- National accounts\n- Prices\n- Public debt\n- Public sector\n\nSource: Bolivia: 2016 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Bolivia (December 22, 2016).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr16387\n  - cr16387 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr16387 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: December 22, 2016",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475561982.002",
    "Bolivia experienced substantial economic and social progress, boosted by the commodity boom.",
    "Growth has been strong, averaging about 5 percent since 2006.",
    "Poverty has fallen by a third.",
    "Authorities built up sizable buffers and largely dedollarized the financial system.",
    "Real GDP growth is projected at 3.7 percent in 2016.",
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    "Poverty reduction: fallen by a third.",
    "Financial system: largely dedollarized.",
    "Fiscal/sectoral condition: sizable buffers built; persistent twin deficits.",
    "The report links Bolivia’s advances in growth and poverty reduction to the commodity boom.",
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