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  "title": "Spain: Staff Report for the 2014 Article IV Consultation",
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  "summary": "This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that economic growth in Spain has resumed, and unemployment is falling. Exporters are gaining market share, and the current account is in surplus for the first time in decades.",
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      "heading": "Macroeconomic assessment and trends",
      "content": "- Economic growth in Spain has resumed.\n- Unemployment is falling.\n- Exporters are gaining market share.\n- The current account is in surplus for the first time in decades.\n- Financial conditions have improved sharply, with sovereign yields at record lows.\n- Business investment is rebounding strongly.\n- Private consumption has started to recover owing to improved employment prospects and rising confidence."
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      "heading": "Policy discussion and Executive Directors' conclusions",
      "content": "- Executive Directors have welcomed the improving Spanish economy.\n- Executive Directors stressed that labor market reform should be accompanied by product and service market liberalization to maximize the gains to growth and jobs."
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781498348157.002",
    "Economic growth in Spain has resumed.",
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    "Exporters are gaining market share.",
    "The current account is in surplus for the first time in decades.",
    "Financial conditions have improved sharply, with sovereign yields at record lows.",
    "Business investment is rebounding strongly.",
    "Private consumption has started to recover owing to improved employment prospects and rising confidence.",
    "Executive Directors have welcomed the improving Spanish economy.",
    "Executive Directors stressed that labor market reform should be accompanied by product and service market liberalization to maximize the gains to growth and jobs.",
    "Publication date: July 10, 2014",
    "Pages: 78",
    "Volume: 2014",
    "Issue: 192",
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    "Stock No: 1ESPEA2014002",
    "ISBN: 9781498348157",
    "ISSN: 1934-7685",
    "Subject: Corporate income tax, Employment, Labor, Labor markets, Taxes, Unemployment, Wages",
    "Keywords: committee's recommendation, Corporate income tax, CR, Employment, Europe, Global, government, government tax Reform Proposa, government Tax Reform Proposal, increase VAT, ISCR, Labor markets, rate, trend productivity growth, Unemployment, vis nonresident, Wages",
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