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  "title": "Cameroon: Staff Report for the 2005 Article IV Consultation and Staff-Monitored Program",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, May 19, 2005",
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  "summary": "Cameroon’s 2005 Article IV Consultation reports that tangible progress has been made in the health and education sectors, and a number of social indicators have improved significantly.",
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      "content": "- Tangible progress has been made in the health and education sectors.\n- A number of social indicators have improved significantly.\n- Deterioration in fiscal performance and related weaknesses in fiscal management could, in the longer term, threaten macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability.\n- Sustainable private sector growth requires the authorities to address:\n  - inadequate infrastructure,\n  - poor service delivery from troubled state enterprises,\n  - an investment climate overshadowed by poor governance,\n  - low levels of financial intermediation."
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      "content": "- Strengthen fiscal management to reverse deterioration in fiscal performance and safeguard macroeconomic stability and debt sustainability.\n- Reform and improve governance of state enterprises to enhance service delivery and reduce fiscal risks.\n- Improve infrastructure and the investment climate to support sustainable private sector growth.\n- Enhance financial intermediation to mobilize domestic resources for investment."
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    "Published: May 19, 2005",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451808124.002",
    "Tangible progress has been made in the health and education sectors.",
    "A number of social indicators have improved significantly.",
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    "Improve infrastructure and the investment climate to support sustainable private sector growth.",
    "Enhance financial intermediation to mobilize domestic resources for investment.",
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