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  "title": "Libya: Selected Issues",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper identifies the sources and quantifies the exchange market pressures on the Libyan dinar. The paper highlights that: (1) the cumulative pressure on the exchange rate has been negative; and (2) despite the alternating appreciation and depreciation pressures, foreign exchange",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- This Selected Issues paper identifies the sources and quantifies the exchange market pressures on the Libyan dinar.\n- Highlights:\n  - (1) the cumulative pressure on the exchange rate has been negative; and\n  - (2) despite the alternating appreciation and depreciation pressures, foreign exchange reserves have remained relatively stable.\n- The authorities’ toolkit is limited: they strive to maintain the stock of reserves at a high level and to keep the exchange rate peg intact, all without the use of fiscal policy or of conventional monetary policy instruments."
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      "heading": "Findings",
      "content": "- Cumulative exchange market pressure on the Libyan dinar has been negative.\n- Foreign exchange reserves have remained relatively stable despite alternating appreciation and depreciation pressures.\n- While Libya experienced periods of both depreciation and appreciation pressures, overall it faced substantial depreciation pressure.\n- Over the medium term, Libya’s policies were not in line with the three-pronged macroeconomic objective of:\n  - maintaining high foreign reserves,\n  - a pegged official exchange rate, and\n  - a narrow gap between the parallel and the official exchange rates."
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      "heading": "Policy recommendations",
      "content": "- Develop conventional monetary policy tools to expand the authorities’ toolkit beyond reserve management and maintaining the peg.\n- Ensure fiscal policy is consistent with overall macroeconomic objectives to support exchange rate stability.\n- Use additional monetary tools and fiscal policy to help:\n  - contain the parallel market premium, and\n  - avoid resorting to capital flow measures."
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      "content": "- Central banks\n- Currency markets\n- Depreciation\n- Exchange rates\n- Financial markets\n- Financial regulation and supervision\n- Foreign exchange\n- International reserves\n- National accounts\n\nInternational Monetary Fund — Libya: Selected Issues (July 11, 2024).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Libya: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 24/207; May 30, 2024\n  - Libya: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 24/207; May 30, 2024 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Libya: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 24/207; May 30, 2024 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: July 11, 2024",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400282195.002",
    "This Selected Issues paper identifies the sources and quantifies the exchange market pressures on the Libyan dinar.",
    "Highlights:",
    "The authorities’ toolkit is limited: they strive to maintain the stock of reserves at a high level and to keep the exchange rate peg intact, all without the use of fiscal policy or of conventional monetary policy instruments.",
    "Cumulative exchange market pressure on the Libyan dinar has been negative.",
    "While Libya experienced periods of both depreciation and appreciation pressures, overall it faced substantial depreciation pressure.",
    "Over the medium term, Libya’s policies were not in line with the three-pronged macroeconomic objective of:",
    "Develop conventional monetary policy tools to expand the authorities’ toolkit beyond reserve management and maintaining the peg.",
    "Ensure fiscal policy is consistent with overall macroeconomic objectives to support exchange rate stability.",
    "Use additional monetary tools and fiscal policy to help:",
    "**Libya: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 24/207; May 30, 2024**"
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