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  "title": "Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, August 2, 2007",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper examines the risks and structural weaknesses in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The paper provides an estimate of the current account adjustment required to stabilize net foreign liabilities.",
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      "content": "- Examines risks and structural weaknesses in Bosnia and Herzegovina.\n- Provides an estimate of the current account adjustment required to stabilize net foreign liabilities.\n- Applies the external sustainability approach of the Consultative Group on Exchange Rate Issues (CGER) methodology for exchange rate assessment.\n- Analyzes the impact of the newly introduced borrowing rules on longer-term debt dynamics.\n- Presents an overview of salient facts about unemployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina."
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      "content": "- External sustainability assessment: CGER external sustainability approach for exchange rate assessment.\n- Debt dynamics analysis: Simulation/assessment of longer-term debt paths in light of newly introduced borrowing rules.\n- Labor market overview: Compilation of salient facts about unemployment and related labor indicators."
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      "content": "- Subjects: Balance of payments, Credit, Current account, Employment, Labor, Money, Unemployment, Wages.\n- Keywords: Bosnia-Herzegovina, CR, Credit, credit growth, Current account, Eastern Europe, Employment, Entity convergence, Global, ISCR, medium-term baseline outlook, net foreign liabilities, RS economy, Unemployment, wage, Wages, Western Europe."
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      "content": "- The paper is organized as a Selected Issues report addressing external balance sustainability, exchange rate assessment, fiscal/borrowing-rule implications for debt, and unemployment facts.\n- Length and scope: 87 pages (content covers methodological application and country-specific analysis across the themes above).\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2007, 269 (2007).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 07/269; June 29, 2007\n  - Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 07/269; June 29, 2007 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 07/269; June 29, 2007 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: August 2, 2007",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451804942.002",
    "Examines risks and structural weaknesses in Bosnia and Herzegovina.",
    "Provides an estimate of the current account adjustment required to stabilize net foreign liabilities.",
    "Applies the external sustainability approach of the Consultative Group on Exchange Rate Issues (CGER) methodology for exchange rate assessment.",
    "Analyzes the impact of the newly introduced borrowing rules on longer-term debt dynamics.",
    "Presents an overview of salient facts about unemployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina.",
    "External sustainability assessment: CGER external sustainability approach for exchange rate assessment.",
    "Debt dynamics analysis: Simulation/assessment of longer-term debt paths in light of newly introduced borrowing rules.",
    "Subjects: Balance of payments, Credit, Current account, Employment, Labor, Money, Unemployment, Wages.",
    "Keywords: Bosnia-Herzegovina, CR, Credit, credit growth, Current account, Eastern Europe, Employment, Entity convergence, Global, ISCR, medium-term baseline outlook, net foreign liabilities, RS economy, Unemployment, wage, Wages, Western Europe.",
    "The paper is organized as a Selected Issues report addressing external balance sustainability, exchange rate assessment, fiscal/borrowing-rule implications for debt, and unemployment facts.",
    "Length and scope: 87 pages (content covers methodological application and country-specific analysis across the themes above).",
    "**Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 07/269; June 29, 2007**"
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