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  "title": "Kuwait: 2025 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; and Staff Report",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, February 24, 2026",
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      "content": "- Kuwait has started the transition from an oil dependent welfare state towards a dynamic and diversified economy.\n- Reform momentum has been building, starting with enactment of the Financing and Liquidity Law.\n- Alongside a public investment scale-up, the authorities are working on wide-ranging fiscal and structural reforms, including to energy subsidies and mortgage lending."
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      "content": "- Transition objective:\n  - Move from an \"oil dependent welfare state\" to a \"dynamic and diversified economy.\"\n- Recent reform steps:\n  - Enactment of the Financing and Liquidity Law marked the start of reform momentum.\n- Policy focus areas:\n  - Public investment scale-up.\n  - Fiscal reforms, including changes to energy subsidies.\n  - Structural reforms, including changes to mortgage lending."
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      "content": "- Sustain and deepen reform momentum initiated by the Financing and Liquidity Law.\n- Prioritize effective public investment scale-up while maintaining fiscal sustainability.\n- Implement wide-ranging fiscal reforms, with attention to:\n  - Energy subsidy reform.\n- Advance structural reforms to support diversification, with attention to:\n  - Mortgage lending measures to deepen financial intermediation and support private sector activity.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- 1kwtea2026001-source-pdf\n  - 1kwtea2026001-source-pdf (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - 1kwtea2026001-source-pdf (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229039727.002",
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