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  "title": "Spain: Selected Issues",
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  "summary": "The COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate Spain’s already large inclusion gap. Responding in the recovery with policies that support social objectives should be a key priority and calls for several structural changes.",
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      "content": "- Publication date: November 13, 2020\n- Core message: The COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate Spain’s already large inclusion gap. Responding in the recovery with policies that support social objectives should be a key priority and calls for several structural changes.\n- Primary focus areas:\n  - Address the fragmented labor market.\n  - Tackle pressures on rental-housing affordability.\n  - Lower the gender pay gap."
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      "content": "- The paper summarizes some of the main drivers behind social dispersion, which pre-dates the COVID-19 crisis.\n- The COVID-19 shock is expected to worsen existing inclusion challenges rather than create wholly new ones.\n- Subject tags provided: Gender, Gender inequality, Labor, Labor markets, Minimum wages, Women."
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      "heading": "Policy options and recommendations",
      "content": "- Emphasize recovery policies that support social objectives and reduce dispersion.\n- Structural changes are called for to:\n  - Reform and reduce fragmentation in the labor market.\n  - Address rental-housing affordability and related pressures.\n  - Reduce the gender pay gap through targeted measures.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Spain: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 20/299; October 26, 2020\n  - Spain: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 20/299; October 26, 2020 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Spain: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 20/299; October 26, 2020 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: November 13, 2020",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513560984.002",
    "Publication date: November 13, 2020",
    "Core message: The COVID-19 pandemic will exacerbate Spain’s already large inclusion gap. Responding in the recovery with policies that support social objectives should be a key priority and calls for several structural changes.",
    "Primary focus areas:",
    "The paper summarizes some of the main drivers behind social dispersion, which pre-dates the COVID-19 crisis.",
    "The COVID-19 shock is expected to worsen existing inclusion challenges rather than create wholly new ones.",
    "Subject tags provided: Gender, Gender inequality, Labor, Labor markets, Minimum wages, Women.",
    "Emphasize recovery policies that support social objectives and reduce dispersion.",
    "Structural changes are called for to:",
    "**Spain: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 20/299; October 26, 2020**"
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