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  "title": "Denmark: 2025 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; and Staff Report",
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  "summary": "Strong growth has continued, primarily driven by the expansion of pharmaceutical exports, while domestic demand has been relatively sluggish. Inflation has remained below 2 percent.",
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      "content": "- Strong growth has continued, primarily driven by the expansion of pharmaceutical exports.\n- Domestic demand has been relatively sluggish.\n- Inflation has remained below 2 percent."
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      "heading": "Outlook and risks",
      "content": "- Staff expects growth to moderate in the near term as external demand weakens, and the exceptional pharmaceutical expansion begins to normalize.\n- While direct impacts from U.S. tariffs are expected to be limited, the escalated global trade tensions pose risks to the outlook."
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      "content": "- Public finances are robust.\n- External positions are robust."
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      "content": "- The financial system has demonstrated resilience to multiple shocks in recent years."
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      "content": "- In response to increasing geopolitical tensions, early in 2025, the government announced a substantial increase in defense spending."
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      "content": "- Subjects: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Crime, Defense spending, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Labor, Labor markets, Securities\n- Keywords: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Baltics, currency of Denmark, Defense spending, ERM II, Europe, Fiscal stance, fluctuation band, Global, IMF staff calculation, Labor markets, Securities, single market\n\nDenmark: 2025 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; and Staff Report\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- 1dnkea2025001-print-pdf\n  - 1dnkea2025001-print-pdf (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - 1dnkea2025001-print-pdf (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229015899.002",
    "Strong growth has continued, primarily driven by the expansion of pharmaceutical exports.",
    "Domestic demand has been relatively sluggish.",
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    "Subjects: Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), Crime, Defense spending, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Labor, Labor markets, Securities",
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