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  "title": "Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, October 6, 2008",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) reports that GDP per capita in BiH is similar to that in neighboring Balkan countries. BiH risks are falling behind rather than catching up with other transition economies in terms of its economic development.",
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      "heading": "Key findings",
      "content": "- GDP per capita in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is similar to that in neighboring Balkan countries.\n- BiH risks falling behind rather than catching up with other transition economies in terms of economic development.\n- Falling behind could delay the process of convergence to and integration with the European Union, including ambitions to eventually adopt the euro.\n- Accelerated structural reforms and macroeconomic stability are identified as key to achieving higher and sustained growth rates."
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      "content": "- Consumer price indexes\n- Export performance\n- Exports\n- Foreign exchange\n- Inflation\n- International trade\n- Prices\n- Real exchange rates"
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      "heading": "Keywords and analytic focus",
      "content": "- BiH risk\n- BIH's inflation\n- BiH's inflation figure\n- Bosnia-Herzegovina\n- CA gap\n- Consumer price indexes\n- CR\n- current account\n- Europe\n- exchange rate\n- export\n- export growth\n- Export performance\n- Exports\n- Global\n- growth dynamics\n- Inflation\n- inflation performance\n- ISCR\n- Real exchange rates\n- rising prices"
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      "content": "- Prioritize accelerated structural reforms to improve convergence and economic development.\n- Maintain macroeconomic stability to support higher and sustained growth rates.\n- Address factors that could delay EU integration and adoption of the euro through targeted policy action.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 08/326; August 28, 2008\n  - Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 08/326; August 28, 2008 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 08/326; August 28, 2008 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: October 6, 2008",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451804966.002",
    "GDP per capita in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is similar to that in neighboring Balkan countries.",
    "BiH risks falling behind rather than catching up with other transition economies in terms of economic development.",
    "Falling behind could delay the process of convergence to and integration with the European Union, including ambitions to eventually adopt the euro.",
    "Accelerated structural reforms and macroeconomic stability are identified as key to achieving higher and sustained growth rates.",
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    "Prioritize accelerated structural reforms to improve convergence and economic development.",
    "Maintain macroeconomic stability to support higher and sustained growth rates.",
    "Address factors that could delay EU integration and adoption of the euro through targeted policy action.",
    "**Bosnia and Herzegovina: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 08/326; August 28, 2008**"
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