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  "title": "Sweden: 2016 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Sweden",
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      "heading": "Macroeconomic performance and outlook",
      "content": "- Real GDP growth: heading for about 3.4 percent in 2016.\n- Real GDP growth: expansion of just over 4 percent in 2015.\n- Growth projection: expected to moderate to 2.4 percent in 2017."
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      "heading": "Labor market",
      "content": "- Employment increase: 1.5 percent so far in 2016.\n- Unemployment: pushed down to about 7 percent."
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      "heading": "Fiscal position and migration-related spending",
      "content": "- Fiscal deficit: expected to be small in 2016.\n- Migration-related government spending: has almost doubled to about 1.4 percent of GDP owing to the surge in refugee inflows in 2015."
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      "content": "- Subjects: Banking, Housing, Housing prices, Income, Inflation, Labor, Labor markets, Mortgages, National accounts, Prices.\n- Keywords (as listed): ability of Finansinspektionen, authorizing legislation, CR, Europe, Global, government, holding, Housing, Housing prices, Income, Inflation, inflation expectation, ISCR, Labor markets, liability positions vis-à-vis nonresident, macroprudential authority, money market rate, Occident."
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      "content": "- Pages: 63\n- Volume: 2016\n- Issue: 353\n- Series: Country Report No. 2016/353\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475553819.002\n- Stock No: 1SWEEA2016001\n- ISBN: 9781475553819\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n- Publication date (landing page): November 17, 2016\n\nSource: Sweden: 2016 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Sweden, IMF Staff Country Reports 2016, 353 (2016).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr16353\n  - cr16353 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr16353 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2016/12/31/sweden-2016-article-iv-consultation-press-release-staff-report-and-statement-by-the-44401"
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    "Real GDP growth: heading for about 3.4 percent in 2016.",
    "Real GDP growth: expansion of just over 4 percent in 2015.",
    "Growth projection: expected to moderate to 2.4 percent in 2017.",
    "Employment increase: 1.5 percent so far in 2016.",
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    "Migration-related government spending: has almost doubled to about 1.4 percent of GDP owing to the surge in refugee inflows in 2015.",
    "Subjects: Banking, Housing, Housing prices, Income, Inflation, Labor, Labor markets, Mortgages, National accounts, Prices.",
    "Keywords (as listed): ability of Finansinspektionen, authorizing legislation, CR, Europe, Global, government, holding, Housing, Housing prices, Income, Inflation, inflation expectation, ISCR, Labor markets, liability positions vis-à-vis nonresident, macroprudential authority, money market rate, Occident.",
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