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  "title": "Panama: Request for an Arrangement Under the Precautionary and Liquidity Line-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Panama",
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    "Published: February 3, 2021",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781513568294.002",
    "Publication type: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "Date: February 3, 2021",
    "Summary: While Panama has been the most dynamic economy in Latin America over the last three decades (growing 6 percent on average), its strength is being tested by the COVID-19 global pandemic. Panama is a service-based economy that is highly integrated in the world economy and exposed to extreme shocks during the pandemic.",
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