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  "title": "Samoa: 2007 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion for Samoa",
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  "summary": "Samoa has achieved a major economic transformation over the last decade and a half. This 2007 Article IV Consultation highlights that real per capita GDP in Samoa has increased by more than 3 percent per year on average, and external public debt has fallen below 40 percent of GDP.",
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      "heading": "Key findings",
      "content": "- Real per capita GDP in Samoa has increased by more than 3 percent per year on average.\n- External public debt has fallen below 40 percent of GDP.\n- The external position benefited from the rapid growth of remittances and tourism receipts.\n- Executive Directors have congratulated the authorities on Samoa’s impressive growth performance and economic transformation over the past decade.\n- Samoa is now set to graduate from least developed country status."
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      "heading": "Economic transformation and drivers",
      "content": "- Growth:\n  - Real per capita GDP growth: \"more than 3 percent per year on average\".\n- External sector:\n  - External public debt: \"below 40 percent of GDP\".\n  - Key external inflows supporting the position: remittances and tourism receipts (described as \"rapid growth\").\n- Structural outcome:\n  - Economic transformation over the last decade and a half leading to graduation from least developed country status."
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      "heading": "Analytical focus areas (as classified in the report)",
      "content": "- Credit\n- Economic sectors\n- External debt\n- Imports\n- International trade\n- Money\n- Public debt\n- Tourism"
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      "heading": "Report identifiers and classification",
      "content": "- Series: Country Report No. 2007/185\n- Issue: 185\n- Volume: 2007\n- Pages: 46\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451840742.002\n- ISBN: 9781451840742\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n- Subject keywords highlighted in the source: annex, basket peg exchange rate regime, CR, Credit, credit growth, headline inflation, IMF staff estimate, Imports, ISCR, less developed country, Pacific Islands, regime, Samoan authorities, Tourism, U.S. dollar\n\nSource: Samoa: 2007 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; and Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion for Samoa (June 1, 2007).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr07185\n  - cr07185 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr07185 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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