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  "title": "Albania: 2022 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Albania",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, December 9, 2022",
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  "summary": "Past efforts to build policy buffers and a broadly appropriate macroeconomic policy mix during 2020–21 have helped Albania withstand the impact of consecutive shocks since 2019.",
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      "content": "- Risks to growth are tilted to the downside.\n- Risks to inflation are to the upside.\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. European Dept. \"Albania: 2022 Article IV Consultation; Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Albania\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2022, 362 (2022), accessed 8/12/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400225604.002\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- 1albea2022004\n  - 1albea2022004 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - 1albea2022004 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400225604.002",
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    "There is considerable uncertainty surrounding the outlook.",
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