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  "title": "Sudan: 2007 Article IV Consultation and Staff-Monitored Program: Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Sudan",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, October 11, 2007",
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  "summary": "This 2007 Article IV Consultation highlights that Sudan’s economic growth continued to be strong in 2006. Overall real GDP increased by 12 percent, despite a lower growth in oil production than previously projected.",
  "publishDate": "2007-10-11",
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      "heading": "Key findings",
      "content": "- Overall real GDP increased by 12 percent in 2006.\n- Non-oil GDP increased by roughly 10 percent in 2006—buoyed by a continued recovery in agriculture and strong activity in manufacturing, construction, and services.\n- Oil production growth was lower than previously projected.\n- The fiscal position weakened in 2006, reflecting mostly oil revenue shortfalls.\n- The external current account position deteriorated, reaching a deficit of roughly 13 percent of GDP."
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      "heading": "Macroeconomic performance (2006)",
      "content": "- Real GDP growth: 12 percent.\n- Non-oil GDP growth: roughly 10 percent.\n- Sectoral drivers: recovery in agriculture; strong activity in manufacturing, construction, and services.\n- Oil sector: lower-than-projected growth in oil production."
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      "heading": "Fiscal and external position",
      "content": "- Fiscal position: weakened in 2006, mainly due to oil revenue shortfalls.\n- External current account: deficit of roughly 13 percent of GDP."
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      "content": "- Subject: Banking, Expenditure, External debt, Monetary base, Oil, gas and mining taxes, Public debt, Public financial management (PFM), Revenue administration\n- Keywords: authority, BOS cashflow table, broad money, commitment control procedure, CR, foreign exchange, Global, ISCR, June, June data, lower-than-budgeted expenditure, Middle East\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Sudan: 2007 Article IV Consultation and Staff-Monitored Program: Staff Report; Staff Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Sudan\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2007, 343 (2007).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr07343\n  - cr07343 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr07343 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2016/12/31/sudan-2007-article-iv-consultation-and-staff-monitored-program-staff-report-staff-statement-21397"
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451833799.002",
    "Overall real GDP increased by 12 percent in 2006.",
    "Non-oil GDP increased by roughly 10 percent in 2006—buoyed by a continued recovery in agriculture and strong activity in manufacturing, construction, and services.",
    "Oil production growth was lower than previously projected.",
    "The fiscal position weakened in 2006, reflecting mostly oil revenue shortfalls.",
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    "Real GDP growth: 12 percent.",
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    "Oil sector: lower-than-projected growth in oil production.",
    "Fiscal position: weakened in 2006, mainly due to oil revenue shortfalls.",
    "External current account: deficit of roughly 13 percent of GDP.",
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    "Keywords: authority, BOS cashflow table, broad money, commitment control procedure, CR, foreign exchange, Global, ISCR, June, June data, lower-than-budgeted expenditure, Middle East",
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