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  "title": "Global Financial Stability Report, April 2012: The Quest for Lasting Stability",
  "publication": "Global Financial Stability Report, April 18, 2012",
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  "summary": "The April 2012 Global Financial Stability Report assesses changes in risks to financial stability over the past six months, focusing on sovereign vulnerabilities, risks stemming from private sector deleveraging, and assessing the continued resilience of emerging markets.",
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      "heading": "Overview and principal assessments",
      "content": "- Assesses changes in risks to financial stability over the past six months.\n- Focuses on sovereign vulnerabilities, risks stemming from private sector deleveraging, and the continued resilience of emerging markets.\n- Probes implications of recent reforms in the financial system for market perception of safe assets.\n- Investigates the growing public and private costs of increased longevity risk from aging populations."
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      "heading": "Major analytical themes",
      "content": "- Sovereign vulnerabilities\n  - Examination of changes in sovereign risk that affect financial stability (assessment period: past six months).\n- Private sector deleveraging\n  - Analysis of risks stemming from private sector efforts to reduce leverage and their implications for financial markets and growth.\n- Emerging markets resilience\n  - Assessment of the continued resilience of emerging markets amid global financial strains.\n- Safe assets and financial reform\n  - Probing how recent financial system reforms affect market perception and demand for safe assets.\n- Longevity risk and aging populations\n  - Investigation into growing public and private costs associated with increased longevity risk."
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      "content": "- Publication date: April 18, 2012\n- Pages: 172\n- Volume: 2012\n- Issue: 001\n- Series: Global Financial Stability Report No. 2012/001\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781616352479.082\n- Stock No: GFSREA2012001\n- ISBN: 9781616352479\n- ISSN: 1729-701X\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. Global Financial Stability Report, April 2012: The Quest for Lasting Stability\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- The Quest for Lasting Stability -- Global Stability Report; April 2012\n  - The Quest for Lasting Stability -- Global Stability Report; April 2012 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - The Quest for Lasting Stability -- Global Stability Report; April 2012 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\n References\n\n- https://www.imf.org/en/publications/gfsr\n- United States and the IMF\n- Explore\n- Subscribe\n- More Formats on IMF eLibrary\n- Order a Print Copy\n- Aging\n- Banking\n- Credit\n- Emerging and frontier financial markets\n- Financial markets\n- Health\n- Labor\n- Money\n- Pension spending\n- Pensions\n- Public debt\n- Enhancing Tax Capacity: Revenue Gains from Strengthening Tax Administration\nOctober 24, 2025\n- Development Committee: The Managing Director's Written Statement\nOctober 20, 2025\n- The Managing Director's Global Policy Agenda, Fall 2025: Navigating a World In Transition\nOctober 16, 2025\n- Unleashing Private Sector Job Creation: Challenges and Opportunities for Lesotho\nOctober 14, 2025\n- https://www.imf.org/en/home\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/gfsr/issues/2016/12/31/global-financial-stability-report-april-2012-the-quest-for-lasting-stability-25343"
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    "Published: April 18, 2012",
    "Series: Global Financial Stability Report",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781616352479.082",
    "Assesses changes in risks to financial stability over the past six months.",
    "Focuses on sovereign vulnerabilities, risks stemming from private sector deleveraging, and the continued resilience of emerging markets.",
    "Probes implications of recent reforms in the financial system for market perception of safe assets.",
    "Investigates the growing public and private costs of increased longevity risk from aging populations.",
    "Sovereign vulnerabilities",
    "Private sector deleveraging",
    "Emerging markets resilience",
    "Safe assets and financial reform",
    "Longevity risk and aging populations",
    "Publication date: April 18, 2012",
    "Pages: 172",
    "Volume: 2012",
    "Issue: 001",
    "Series: Global Financial Stability Report No. 2012/001",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781616352479.082",
    "Stock No: GFSREA2012001",
    "ISBN: 9781616352479",
    "ISSN: 1729-701X",
    "**The Quest for Lasting Stability -- Global Stability Report; April 2012**",
    "[https://www.imf.org/en/publications/gfsr](https://www.imf.org/en/publications/gfsr)",
    "[United States and the IMF](http://www.imf.org/external/country/USA/index.htm)",
    "[Explore](https://www.elibrary.imf.org/)",
    "[Subscribe](https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Newsletter/registration)",
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    "[Aging](https://www.imf.org/en/publications/publications-by-subject?subject=Aging)",
    "[Banking](https://www.imf.org/en/publications/publications-by-subject?subject=Banking)",
    "[Credit](https://www.imf.org/en/publications/publications-by-subject?subject=Credit)",
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    "[Enhancing Tax Capacity: Revenue Gains from Strengthening Tax Administration",
    "[Development Committee: The Managing Director's Written Statement",
    "[The Managing Director's Global Policy Agenda, Fall 2025: Navigating a World In Transition",
    "[Unleashing Private Sector Job Creation: Challenges and Opportunities for Lesotho"
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