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  "title": "Malta: 2025 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; and Staff Report",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, February 6, 2026",
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  "summary": "Malta's economy has grown rapidly over the past decade, with per capita income nearly doubling since 2013. Growth averaged close to 7 percent annually, led by labor-intensive tourism, online gaming, and professional services, and was supported by inflows of foreign workers.",
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      "content": "- Malta's economy has grown rapidly over the past decade, with per capita income nearly doubling since 2013.\n- Growth averaged close to 7 percent annually.\n- Growth was led by labor-intensive tourism, online gaming, and professional services, and was supported by inflows of foreign workers.\n- Malta is an island economy with the highest population density in the EU."
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      "heading": "Outlook and risks",
      "content": "- Labor-driven growth supported by immigration is expected to continue in the medium term but slow in the longer term.\n- Without adequate policy and structural reform measures, the inevitable deceleration in labor force growth would weigh on potential output and limit actual growth."
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      "content": "- Implement adequate policy and structural reform measures to mitigate the long-term slowdown associated with decelerating labor force growth.\n- Address constraints arising from high population density and limits to sustaining further substantial population and labor force growth through immigration.\n\nMalta: 2025 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; and Staff Report (February 6, 2026).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- 1mltea2026001 Source Pdf\n  - 1mltea2026001 Source Pdf (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - 1mltea2026001 Source Pdf (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229038249.002",
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    "Growth averaged close to 7 percent annually.",
    "Growth was led by labor-intensive tourism, online gaming, and professional services, and was supported by inflows of foreign workers.",
    "Malta is an island economy with the highest population density in the EU.",
    "Without adequate policy and structural reform measures, the inevitable deceleration in labor force growth would weigh on potential output and limit actual growth.",
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