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  "title": "Mexico: Staff Report for the 2004 Article IV Consultation",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, December 23, 2004",
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  "summary": "This 2004 Article IV Consultation highlights that economic activity in Mexico accelerated to 3.8 percent in the first half of 2004 over the previous year. This recovery is partly attributable to strengthening U.S.",
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      "heading": "Macroeconomic performance and drivers",
      "content": "- Economic activity in Mexico accelerated to 3.8 percent in the first half of 2004 over the previous year.\n- The recovery is partly attributable to strengthening U.S. industrial production.\n- Mexican manufactured exports grew by 10½ percent (seasonally adjusted) in the first seven months of 2004 over the same period in 2003."
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      "content": "- Subjects: External debt, Inflation, Oil prices, Oil, gas and mining taxes, Prices, Public debt, Taxes\n- Keywords: CR, deficit, gas and mining taxes, Global, headline CPI inflation, Inflation, inflation expectation, ISCR, Middle East, Oil, Oil prices, September, staff, staff appraisal, staff assumption, staff-s assumption\n\nMexico: Staff Report for the 2004 Article IV Consultation, IMF Staff Country Reports 2004, 419 (2004), DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451825633.002\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr04419\n  - cr04419 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr04419 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: December 23, 2004",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451825633.002",
    "Economic activity in Mexico accelerated to 3.8 percent in the first half of 2004 over the previous year.",
    "The recovery is partly attributable to strengthening U.S. industrial production.",
    "Mexican manufactured exports grew by 10½ percent (seasonally adjusted) in the first seven months of 2004 over the same period in 2003.",
    "The government has made significant progress in strengthening the structure of public debt.",
    "Several liability management operations have helped to improve the efficiency of the yield curve.",
    "Subjects: External debt, Inflation, Oil prices, Oil, gas and mining taxes, Prices, Public debt, Taxes",
    "Keywords: CR, deficit, gas and mining taxes, Global, headline CPI inflation, Inflation, inflation expectation, ISCR, Middle East, Oil, Oil prices, September, staff, staff appraisal, staff assumption, staff-s assumption",
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