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  "title": "Finland: 2022 Article IV Consultation — Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Finland",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, January 23, 2023",
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  "summary": "This 2022 Article IV Consultation with Finland highlights that the economy recovered swiftly from the pandemic, but Russia’s war in Ukraine has worsened the outlook given Finland’s exposures to the fallout through trade and increase in energy prices, while high inflation and rising interest rates ar",
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      "heading": "Economic outlook and near-term risks",
      "content": "- Economy recovered swiftly from the pandemic.\n- Russia’s war in Ukraine has worsened the outlook through trade exposures and increases in energy prices.\n- High inflation and rising interest rates are weighing on household purchasing power."
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      "heading": "Structural challenges and medium-term constraints",
      "content": "- Long-standing structural challenges persist: adverse demographics and low productivity growth.\n- Further measures to boost employment and productivity are key to growth and fiscal sustainability."
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      "heading": "Financial sector resilience and vulnerabilities",
      "content": "- Finland has a large financial system; banks are well capitalized.\n- Vulnerabilities identified:\n  - Susceptibility to liquidity shocks.\n  - Exposure to credit risks from other Nordic countries.\n  - High household debt raising systemic vulnerability.\n- Recommendation: Strengthen liquidity buffers."
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      "heading": "Macroprudential and regulatory policy recommendations",
      "content": "- When circumstances allow:\n  - Re-instate systemic buffers.\n  - Enhance cyclical tools by introducing a positive neutral rate for the countercyclical capital buffer.\n- Legislative action: Enact a debt-to-income cap to address household finance vulnerabilities."
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      "heading": "Labor market and wage-setting reforms",
      "content": "- Advance labor market reforms to boost employment and productivity.\n- Make collective wage bargaining more flexible while strengthening the coordination mechanism to support adjustment to shocks.\n\nInternational Monetary Fund, January 23, 2023.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- 1finea2023001\n  - 1finea2023001 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - 1finea2023001 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: January 23, 2023",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400232114.002",
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    "Recommendation: Strengthen liquidity buffers.",
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