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  "title": "Vietnam: Selected Issues",
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  "summary": "Vietnam was remarkably successful in bringing down inflation in the 1990s to a single-digit range, after a period of high inflation in the late 1980s. The potential unfavorable effects of inflation on poverty and growth are well known.",
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      "content": "- Vietnam was remarkably successful in bringing down inflation in the 1990s to a single-digit range, after a period of high inflation in the late 1980s.\n- The paper analyzes available empirical evidence using several different approaches to shed light on the potential unfavorable effects of inflation on poverty and growth.\n- Petroleum price increases appear to have had a modest direct effect on inflation in Vietnam, peaking at about 1 percent in 2005."
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      "heading": "Key findings and analysis",
      "content": "- Inflation trajectory:\n  - High inflation in the late 1980s.\n  - Reduction to single-digit inflation in the 1990s.\n- Impact of petroleum prices:\n  - Petroleum price increases had a modest direct effect on inflation.\n  - The direct effect peaked at about 1 percent in 2005.\n- Analytical approach:\n  - The paper uses several different empirical approaches to assess the links between inflation, poverty, and growth."
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      "content": "- Subject: Balance of payments, Capital account, Capital outflows, External debt, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Prices, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates\n- Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Capital account, Capital outflows, CR, developments in Vietnam, equilibrium exchange rate model, Europe, exchange rate development, Global, Inflation, inflation dynamics, ISCR, price, Real exchange rates, short-term debt, trade balance, trade openness, Vietnam\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Vietnam: Selected Issues; Country Report 06/422; October 6, 2006\n  - Vietnam: Selected Issues; Country Report 06/422; October 6, 2006 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Vietnam: Selected Issues; Country Report 06/422; October 6, 2006 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2016/12/31/vietnam-selected-issues-20137"
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    "Published: November 29, 2006",
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    "Vietnam was remarkably successful in bringing down inflation in the 1990s to a single-digit range, after a period of high inflation in the late 1980s.",
    "The paper analyzes available empirical evidence using several different approaches to shed light on the potential unfavorable effects of inflation on poverty and growth.",
    "Petroleum price increases appear to have had a modest direct effect on inflation in Vietnam, peaking at about 1 percent in 2005.",
    "Inflation trajectory:",
    "Impact of petroleum prices:",
    "Analytical approach:",
    "Subject: Balance of payments, Capital account, Capital outflows, External debt, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Prices, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates",
    "Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Capital account, Capital outflows, CR, developments in Vietnam, equilibrium exchange rate model, Europe, exchange rate development, Global, Inflation, inflation dynamics, ISCR, price, Real exchange rates, short-term debt, trade balance, trade openness, Vietnam",
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