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  "title": "Jamaica: Interim Staff Report Under Intensified Surveillance",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, February 18, 2005",
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  "summary": "This paper reviews the Interim Staff Report Under Intensified Surveillance for Jamaica. The authorities have reaffirmed their objective of balancing the budget in FY 2005/06, while recognizing that this now poses a greater challenge. The IMF staff now estimates that measures in the range of 2.5–3.",
  "publishDate": "2005-02-18",
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      "heading": "Fiscal objectives and assessment",
      "content": "- The authorities have reaffirmed their objective of balancing the budget in FY 2005/06, while recognizing that this now poses a greater challenge.\n- The IMF staff now estimates that measures in the range of 2.5–3.0 percent of GDP would be required to meet this goal, compared with the IMF staff’s estimate of 1.7 percent of GDP at the time of the 2004 Article IV consultation."
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      "heading": "Monetary and exchange rate policy constraints",
      "content": "- The room to maneuver in monetary and exchange rate policy remains constrained by the debt overhang."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Key themes and policy areas covered",
      "content": "- Budget planning and preparation\n- Central banks\n- Expenditure\n- International reserves\n- Open market operations\n- Public debt\n- Public financial management (PFM)"
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      "heading": "Keywords and indicators emphasized",
      "content": "- Budget planning and preparation, Caribbean, CR\n- current account, debt stock, exchange rate, FDI inflow\n- financing of the budget, fiscal year, foreign currency financing, forex position\n- GDP, International reserves, ISCR, Open market operations\n- policy area, public debt debt ratio, public debt-GDP ratio\n\nSource: \"Jamaica: Interim Staff Report Under Intensified Surveillance\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2005, 061 (2005).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Jamaica: Interim Staff Report Under Intensified Surveillance\n  - Jamaica: Interim Staff Report Under Intensified Surveillance (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2016/12/31/jamaica-interim-staff-report-under-intensified-surveillance-18070"
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    "Published: February 18, 2005",
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451820140.002",
    "The authorities have reaffirmed their objective of balancing the budget in FY 2005/06, while recognizing that this now poses a greater challenge.",
    "The IMF staff now estimates that measures in the range of 2.5–3.0 percent of GDP would be required to meet this goal, compared with the IMF staff’s estimate of 1.7 percent of GDP at the time of the 2004 Article IV consultation.",
    "The room to maneuver in monetary and exchange rate policy remains constrained by the debt overhang.",
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    "financing of the budget, fiscal year, foreign currency financing, forex position",
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    "policy area, public debt debt ratio, public debt-GDP ratio",
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