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  "title": "Denmark: 2018 Article IV Consultation-Press Release and Staff Report",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, June 20, 2018",
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  "summary": "This 2018 Article IV Consultation highlights that the Danish economy continues to enjoy solid growth. The output gap has seemingly closed for the first time since the global financial crisis.",
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      "heading": "Executive summary and outlook",
      "content": "- The Danish economy \"continues to enjoy solid growth.\"\n- The output gap \"has seemingly closed for the first time since the global financial crisis.\"\n- The outlook is for continued robust growth, \"projected to exceed its trend in the near term, reaching 2.0 percent in 2018 and 1.9 in 2019.\""
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      "heading": "Labor market and capacity",
      "content": "- Unemployment is \"low and close to its estimated structural level.\"\n- There are \"signs of labor shortages and capacity constraints in some sectors.\""
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    {
      "heading": "Prices and inflation",
      "content": "- Inflation \"remains subdued.\""
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      "heading": "Housing market and household balance sheets",
      "content": "- \"Property prices in urban areas are rising swiftly.\"\n- Household debt \"remains elevated despite recent deleveraging.\""
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      "heading": "Structural constraints and growth potential",
      "content": "- The report highlights \"increasingly binding constraints\" that point to \"Denmark’s reduced growth potential.\"\n- These constraints reflect \"structurally weak productivity growth and the post-crisis investment slowdown.\""
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      "content": "- Pages: 53\n- Volume: 2018\n- Issue: 177\n- Series: Country Report No. 2018/177\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484362433.002\n- ISBN: 9781484362433\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n\nDenmark: 2018 Article IV Consultation-Press Release and Staff Report, IMF Staff Country Reports 2018, 177.\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\"}"
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484362433.002",
    "The Danish economy \"continues to enjoy solid growth.\"",
    "The output gap \"has seemingly closed for the first time since the global financial crisis.\"",
    "The outlook is for continued robust growth, \"projected to exceed its trend in the near term, reaching 2.0 percent in 2018 and 1.9 in 2019.\"",
    "Unemployment is \"low and close to its estimated structural level.\"",
    "There are \"signs of labor shortages and capacity constraints in some sectors.\"",
    "Inflation \"remains subdued.\"",
    "\"Property prices in urban areas are rising swiftly.\"",
    "Household debt \"remains elevated despite recent deleveraging.\"",
    "The report highlights \"increasingly binding constraints\" that point to \"Denmark’s reduced growth potential.\"",
    "These constraints reflect \"structurally weak productivity growth and the post-crisis investment slowdown.\"",
    "Pages: 53",
    "Volume: 2018",
    "Issue: 177",
    "Series: Country Report No. 2018/177",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484362433.002",
    "ISBN: 9781484362433",
    "ISSN: 1934-7685",
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