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  "title": "Republic of Estonia: Selected Issues",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper on the Republic of Estonia highlights its growth performance relative to other countries in the European Union (EU). Estonia has experienced a period of unprecedented growth since the mid-1990s.",
  "publishDate": "2007-07-30",
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      "heading": "Summary findings",
      "content": "- Estonia experienced a period of unprecedented growth since the mid-1990s.\n- Between 1995 and 2005, Estonia’s real GDP per capita rose by an average of 6½ percent a year, exceeding the annual growth rates of all other countries in the EU.\n- The impressive growth performance is partly explained by the recovery from the immediate post-central planning drop in output."
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      "heading": "Major themes covered",
      "content": "- Aging\n- Expenditure\n- Health care spending\n- Population and demographics\n- Production\n- Productivity\n- Total factor productivity"
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      "heading": "Keywords and focus areas",
      "content": "- age-related expenditure\n- Aging\n- Baltics\n- CR\n- Europe\n- exiting firm\n- expenditure reduction\n- GDP\n- Global\n- health care\n- Health care spending\n- interest rate\n- ISCR\n- Productivity\n- productivity growth\n- TFP growth\n- Total factor productivity\n\nRepublic of Estonia: Selected Issues (IMF Staff Country Reports 2007, 256), July 30, 2007.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Republic of Estonia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 07/256; July 11, 2007.\n  - Republic of Estonia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 07/256; July 11, 2007. (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Republic of Estonia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 07/256; July 11, 2007. (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2016/12/31/republic-of-estonia-selected-issues-21219"
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    "Estonia experienced a period of unprecedented growth since the mid-1990s.",
    "Between 1995 and 2005, Estonia’s real GDP per capita rose by an average of 6½ percent a year, exceeding the annual growth rates of all other countries in the EU.",
    "The impressive growth performance is partly explained by the recovery from the immediate post-central planning drop in output.",
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    "**Republic of Estonia: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report 07/256; July 11, 2007.**"
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