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  "title": "Iraq: Staff Report for the 2005 Article IV Consultation",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, August 16, 2005",
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  "summary": "Iraq’s 2005 Article IV Consultation reports that there has been a marked deterioration in Iraq’s human development indicators over the last twenty years.",
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      "heading": "Summary findings",
      "content": "- There has been a marked deterioration in Iraq’s human development indicators over the last twenty years.\n- There is relatively little firm data on the balance of payments other than on oil exports, government imports of goods and services, and external reserves.\n- There were large current account deficits in 2004 and 2005, reflecting high levels of imports related to reconstruction and recovery.\n- The Iraqi government has begun to engage with official creditors in line with the Paris Club agreement."
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      "heading": "Balance of payments and external sector",
      "content": "- Available firm data are limited to:\n  - oil exports\n  - government imports of goods and services\n  - external reserves\n- Large current account deficits recorded in:\n  - 2004\n  - 2005\n- Primary drivers of deficits:\n  - high levels of imports related to reconstruction and recovery"
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      "heading": "Policy engagement and debt treatment",
      "content": "- The Iraqi government has begun to engage with official creditors consistent with the Paris Club agreement."
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      "content": "- Date: August 16, 2005\n- Pages: 66\n- Volume: 2005\n- Issue: 294\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451819083.002\n- ISBN: 9781451819083\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n- Series: Country Report No. 2005/294\n- Stock No: 1IRQEA2005001\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Iraq: Staff Report for the 2005 Article IV Consultation\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2005, 294 (2005), August 16, 2005.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr05294\n  - cr05294 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr05294 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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