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  "title": "Republic of Madagascar: Economic Development Document",
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  "summary": "This Economic Development Document describes the strategy adopted by the government of Madagascar to reverse the trend of modest economic performance, deteriorating social conditions, and persistent poverty observed in recent years. This strategy addresses the underlying causes of poverty.",
  "publishDate": "2017-07-18",
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      "heading": "Strategy overview",
      "content": "- Describes the strategy adopted by the government of Madagascar to reverse the trend of modest economic performance, deteriorating social conditions, and persistent poverty observed in recent years.\n- Strategy addresses the underlying causes of poverty.\n- Primary aim of fiscal policy is to increase revenue and rationalize budget expenditure to provide ample margins to finance priority spending, specifically social and infrastructure spending."
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      "heading": "Fiscal policy priorities",
      "content": "- Expand the tax base.\n- Continue reform of tax and customs administration.\n- Eliminate the causes of inefficient public expenditure.\n- Provide ample margins to finance priority spending, specifically social and infrastructure spending."
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    {
      "heading": "Monetary policy objectives",
      "content": "- Regulate domestic liquidity to normalize trends in economic activities.\n- Achieve the inflation targets of less than 10.0 percent."
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      "heading": "Subject areas covered",
      "content": "- Corruption\n- Education\n- Infrastructure\n- National accounts\n- Population and demographics\n- Poverty\n- Poverty reduction"
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      "content": "- air Madagascar\n- asset recovery authority\n- CR\n- development framework\n- economic growth\n- economic system\n- energy security\n- financing requirement\n- government securities market\n- Infrastructure\n- ISCR\n- land tenure\n- per capita income\n- poverty profile\n- poverty rate\n- Poverty reduction\n- private sector\n- purchasing power\n- Sub-Saharan Africa\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. Republic of Madagascar: Economic Development Document (IMF Staff Country Reports 2017, No. 2017/225).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Country Report\n  - Country Report (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Country Report (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2017/07/18/republic-of-madagascar-economic-development-document-45099"
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    "Strategy addresses the underlying causes of poverty.",
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