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  "title": "Kingdom of Lesotho: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix",
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  "summary": "The challenge of achieving broad-based growth in Lesotho is discussed. Economic growth is inconsistent. Lesotho is highly dependent on trade with South Africa. The sources of growth in Lesotho using a social accounting matrix model and a growth-accounting framework are outlined.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Publication date: April 21, 2008\n- Format: IMF Staff Country Report No. 2008/135, 68 pages\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451823875.002\n- ISBN: 9781451823875\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n- Main subject areas: Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Income, National accounts, Purchasing power parity, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates"
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      "heading": "Key findings",
      "content": "- The challenge of achieving broad-based growth in Lesotho is discussed.\n- Economic growth is inconsistent.\n- Lesotho is highly dependent on trade with South Africa.\n- The various methods employed suggest that there is neither external stability nor significant evidence of exchange rate misalignment."
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      "heading": "Methods and analysis",
      "content": "- Sources of growth in Lesotho are outlined using:\n  - a social accounting matrix (SAM) model\n  - a growth-accounting framework\n- The main constraints to growth and private investment are analyzed alongside current policy initiatives to promote broad-based growth and private investment."
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      "heading": "Constraints and policy implications",
      "content": "- Main constraints to growth and private investment are identified (specific constraints described in the report).\n- Current policy initiatives to promote broad-based growth and private investment are analyzed (specific initiatives described in the report)."
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      "content": "- Africa, competitiveness rank Lesotho, CR, doing business indicator, exchange rate, Exchange rates, firms in Lesotho, Income, ISCR, Lesotho, Purchasing power parity, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates, Sub-Saharan Africa, textile export, textile sector\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Kingdom of Lesotho: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2008, 135 (2008).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr08135\n  - cr08135 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr08135 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451823875.002",
    "Publication date: April 21, 2008",
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