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  "title": "Mexico: Staff Report for the 2003 Article IV Consultation",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, August 13, 2004",
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  "summary": "This 2003 Article IV Consultation highlights that Mexico’s real GDP remained subdued in the first half of 2003, with growth of 1.4 percent in the four quarters ending in the second quarter.",
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      "heading": "Economic performance and activity",
      "content": "- Real GDP remained subdued in the first half of 2003, with growth of 1.4 percent in the four quarters ending in the second quarter.\n- Recent indicators of activity have been mixed.\n- Most observers still expect the economy to recover in the second half of the year, in line with the United States recovery."
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      "heading": "Public debt and external position",
      "content": "- The government has made significant progress in strengthening the structure of public debt.\n- Public external debt fell from 15 percent of total debt in 2000 to 13½ percent in 2002."
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      "content": "- Economic sectors\n- External debt\n- Inflation\n- Oil prices\n- Prices\n- Public debt\n- Public sector"
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      "content": "- augmented deficit\n- consumer confidence index\n- core inflation\n- CR\n- deficit\n- draft bill\n- Global\n- headline inflation\n- Inflation\n- ISCR\n- Oil prices\n- Public sector\n- smaller-than-expected deficit\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Mexico: Staff Report for the 2003 Article IV Consultation\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2004, 254 (2004), August 13, 2004, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451825596.002\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Cr04254\n  - Cr04254 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Cr04254 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451825596.002",
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