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  "title": "Malta: 2008 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Malta",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, August 8, 2008",
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  "summary": "This 2008 Article IV Consultation highlights that Malta has experienced a three-year-long expansion reflecting strong foreign direct investment, export diversification, and value-added upgrading. Financial soundness indicators held up in 2007 despite unfavorable international developments.",
  "publishDate": "2008-08-08",
  "series": "IMF Staff Country Reports",
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      "heading": "Economic performance and drivers of growth",
      "content": "- Malta experienced a three-year-long expansion.\n- Expansion reflected:\n  - strong foreign direct investment,\n  - export diversification,\n  - value-added upgrading."
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      "heading": "Financial sector soundness and banking sector assessment",
      "content": "- Financial soundness indicators held up in 2007 despite unfavorable international developments.\n- Banking sector characteristics:\n  - liquidity and funding profile are healthy,\n  - banks have remained profitable despite markdowns in security portfolios.\n- Nonperforming loans:\n  - fell further but are still comparatively high and thinly provisioned."
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    {
      "heading": "Public sector and structural reforms",
      "content": "- The authorities are unbundling and opening to private participation the fuel and gas operations of the public energy company."
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      "content": "- Subject: Banking, Competition, Economic sectors, Exports, External debt, Financial markets, Foreign direct investment, International trade, Public debt, Public sector\n- Keywords: authority, Competition, CR, Exports, Global, growth potential, ISCR, Malta, price flexibility, private sector analyst, productivity gain, Public sector, retrenchment measure, spending, state aid, terms-of-trade gain, three-year-long expansion\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Cr08276\n  - Cr08276 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2016/12/31/malta-2008-article-iv-consultation-staff-report-public-information-notice-on-the-executive-22255"
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    "Published: August 8, 2008",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451826647.002",
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    "Financial soundness indicators held up in 2007 despite unfavorable international developments.",
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    "The authorities are unbundling and opening to private participation the fuel and gas operations of the public energy company.",
    "Subject: Banking, Competition, Economic sectors, Exports, External debt, Financial markets, Foreign direct investment, International trade, Public debt, Public sector",
    "Keywords: authority, Competition, CR, Exports, Global, growth potential, ISCR, Malta, price flexibility, private sector analyst, productivity gain, Public sector, retrenchment measure, spending, state aid, terms-of-trade gain, three-year-long expansion",
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