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  "title": "Eastern Caribbean Currency Union: Selected Issues",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper analyzes the income dispersion and comovement in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union region. It finds that incomes are diverging, with the Leeward Islands converging to a higher income level than the Windward Islands.",
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      "heading": "Macroeconomic impact of trade preference erosion",
      "content": "- The paper examines the macroeconomic impact of trade preference erosion on the Windward Islands.\n- Finding: preference erosion has a substantial impact on growth, trade balances, and fiscal positions."
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    "Published: March 6, 2007",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451811704.002",
    "The paper analyzes income dispersion and comovement in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union region.",
    "Finding: incomes are diverging, with the Leeward Islands converging to a higher income level than the Windward Islands.",
    "The paper examines the macroeconomic impact of trade preference erosion on the Windward Islands.",
    "Finding: preference erosion has a substantial impact on growth, trade balances, and fiscal positions.",
    "The paper analyzes the size of the informal economy in the Caribbean.",
    "**Eastern Caribbean Currency Union: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 07/97; December 21, 2006**"
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