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  "title": "Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper provides a preliminary view on Afghanistan’s external competitiveness through a review of some macroeconomic, microeconomic, and institutional indicators.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Provides a preliminary view on Afghanistan’s external competitiveness through a review of macroeconomic, microeconomic, and institutional indicators.\n- Discusses the rebuilding of domestic revenue.\n- Analyzes the macroeconomic impact of the drug economy and the counternarcotics efforts.\n- Provides, whenever available, statistical information on the real, fiscal, monetary, and external sectors.\n- Contains a list of state-owned enterprises and an updated summary of the tax system as of end-December 2005.\n- Publication date: March 16, 2006."
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      "heading": "Major analytical themes",
      "content": "- External competitiveness\n  - Review of macroeconomic, microeconomic, and institutional indicators relevant to external competitiveness.\n- Domestic revenue mobilization\n  - Discussion focused on rebuilding domestic revenue and related administrative considerations.\n- Drug economy and counternarcotics\n  - Analysis of the macroeconomic impact of the drug economy.\n  - Assessment of macroeconomic effects of counternarcotics efforts.\n- Statistical coverage\n  - Statistical information provided, whenever available, on the real, fiscal, monetary, and external sectors.\n  - Includes a list of state-owned enterprises and an updated summary of the tax system as of end-December 2005."
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      "heading": "Subjects and keywords",
      "content": "- Subject: International trade, National accounts, Revenue administration, Taxes\n- Keywords: Afghanistan, Asia and Pacific, Central Asia, Consumption taxes, CR, export firm, export value, Exports, farm gate price, Global, government, import partner, Income, Income and capital gains taxes, ISCR, opium production, Pakistani rupee, reform, Sub-Saharan Africa"
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      "content": "- IMF Staff Country Reports\n- Available formats: PDF and more formats on IMF eLibrary\n- Options listed: Download PDF, Order a Print Copy, Create Citation\n- Citation example provided in Chicago format within the source content.\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Islamic Republic of Afghanistan: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2006, 114. March 16, 2006.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr06114\n  - cr06114 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr06114 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451800258.002",
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    "Discusses the rebuilding of domestic revenue.",
    "Analyzes the macroeconomic impact of the drug economy and the counternarcotics efforts.",
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    "Subject: International trade, National accounts, Revenue administration, Taxes",
    "Keywords: Afghanistan, Asia and Pacific, Central Asia, Consumption taxes, CR, export firm, export value, Exports, farm gate price, Global, government, import partner, Income, Income and capital gains taxes, ISCR, opium production, Pakistani rupee, reform, Sub-Saharan Africa",
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