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  "title": "Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Selected Issues",
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  "summary": "The paper analyzes the export performance and external competitiveness in FYR Macedonia. It describes the trends in the account balance, external vulnerabilities, and different approaches to estimate the equilibrium real exchange rate; and reviews economic growth experience and prospects and reveals",
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      "heading": "Export Performance and External Competitiveness",
      "content": "- Analyzes the export performance and external competitiveness in FYR Macedonia.\n- Identifies export performance as a central theme for assessing macroeconomic adjustment and growth prospects."
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      "heading": "External Account Trends and Vulnerabilities",
      "content": "- Describes the trends in the account balance.\n- Reviews external vulnerabilities affecting FYR Macedonia."
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      "heading": "Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate (RER)",
      "content": "- Presents different approaches to estimate the equilibrium real exchange rate.\n- Compares methodologies for assessing RER to inform competitiveness analysis."
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      "heading": "Economic Growth Experience and Prospects",
      "content": "- Reviews economic growth experience and prospects and reveals areas of weakness.\n- Assesses factors constraining growth and structural impediments to stronger medium-term performance."
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      "heading": "Unemployment and Labor Market",
      "content": "- Discusses many different factors responsible for Macedonia's high unemployment rate.\n- Examines structural and cyclical contributors to the unemployment rate as part of labor market diagnostics."
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    {
      "heading": "Financial Intermediation and Banking",
      "content": "- Examines the main factors behind the low level of intermediation.\n- Reviews banking-sector implications for credit access and financial deepening."
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      "content": "- Publication date: October 5, 2006\n- Pages: 70\n- Volume: 2006\n- Issue: 345\n- Series: Country Report No. 2006/345\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451826128.002\n- Stock No: 1MKDEA2006004\n- ISBN: 9781451826128\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n- Subjects: Banking, Employment, Foreign exchange, Labor, Production, Real exchange rates, Total factor productivity, Unemployment, Unemployment rate\n- Keywords: Baltics, CR, Eastern Europe, Employment, Europe, exchange rate, export share, FYR, FYR Macedonia, Global, growth performance, ISCR, lending rate, Macedonia, Real exchange rates, sector reform, Total factor productivity, Unemployment, Unemployment rate\n- Related platform note: Our eLibrary offers over 25,000 IMF publications in multiple formats.\n\nFormer Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Selected Issues, IMF Staff Country Reports 2006, 345 (2006).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 06/345; July 14, 2006\n  - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 06/345; July 14, 2006 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 06/345; July 14, 2006 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451826128.002",
    "Analyzes the export performance and external competitiveness in FYR Macedonia.",
    "Identifies export performance as a central theme for assessing macroeconomic adjustment and growth prospects.",
    "Describes the trends in the account balance.",
    "Reviews external vulnerabilities affecting FYR Macedonia.",
    "Presents different approaches to estimate the equilibrium real exchange rate.",
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    "Assesses factors constraining growth and structural impediments to stronger medium-term performance.",
    "Discusses many different factors responsible for Macedonia's high unemployment rate.",
    "Examines structural and cyclical contributors to the unemployment rate as part of labor market diagnostics.",
    "Examines the main factors behind the low level of intermediation.",
    "Reviews banking-sector implications for credit access and financial deepening.",
    "Publication date: October 5, 2006",
    "Pages: 70",
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    "Issue: 345",
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451826128.002",
    "Stock No: 1MKDEA2006004",
    "ISBN: 9781451826128",
    "ISSN: 1934-7685",
    "Subjects: Banking, Employment, Foreign exchange, Labor, Production, Real exchange rates, Total factor productivity, Unemployment, Unemployment rate",
    "Keywords: Baltics, CR, Eastern Europe, Employment, Europe, exchange rate, export share, FYR, FYR Macedonia, Global, growth performance, ISCR, lending rate, Macedonia, Real exchange rates, sector reform, Total factor productivity, Unemployment, Unemployment rate",
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