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  "title": "Greece: 2026 Article IV Consultation - Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Greece",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, May 27, 2026",
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  "summary": "The energy price shock from the war in the Middle East is a considerable headwind, but strong investment and ongoing reforms in the context of the Next Generation EU (NGEU) are supporting growth.",
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      "heading": "Macroeconomic overview and outlook",
      "content": "- The energy price shock from the war in the Middle East is described as a \"considerable headwind.\"\n- Strong investment and ongoing reforms in the context of the Next Generation EU (NGEU) are supporting growth.\n- Public sector balance sheets continue to improve, with the public debt-to-GDP ratio \"declining rapidly,\" creating some policy space to meet external challenges.\n- Private sector balance sheet repair is incomplete.\n- Structural impediments that weigh on medium-term growth and external balances:\n  - low overall investment\n  - sluggish productivity growth\n  - unfavorable demographics"
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      "heading": "Financial sector and stability",
      "content": "- The report is categorized under \"Financial sector policy and analysis\" and \"Financial sector stability.\"\n- Private sector balance sheet repair remains incomplete, implying residual vulnerabilities despite improving public sector positions."
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      "heading": "Growth drivers and risks",
      "content": "- Supporting factors:\n  - strong investment\n  - ongoing reforms under NGEU\n- Downside risks:\n  - energy price shock linked to the war in the Middle East\n  - structural constraints (investment, productivity, demographics)\n- The combination of improving public finances and persistent private-sector and structural weaknesses frames the medium-term growth and external balance outlook."
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      "content": "- Leverage the policy space created by rapidly declining public debt-to-GDP ratio to address external challenges.\n- Continue implementing reforms linked to NGEU to support investment and growth.\n- Prioritize measures to:\n  - accelerate private sector balance sheet repair\n  - raise overall investment\n  - boost productivity\n  - address unfavorable demographic trends\n\nSource: Greece: 2026 Article IV Consultation - Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Greece, May 27, 2026 (IMF Staff Country Reports 2026, No. 108).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- 1grcea2026001\n  - 1grcea2026001 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - 1grcea2026001 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229047340.002",
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