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  "title": "IMF Research Bulletin, March 2011",
  "publication": "IMF Research Bulletin, March 1, 2011",
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  "summary": "The Q&A in this issue features seven questions on the role of precautionary savings in open economies (by Damiano Sandri); the research summaries are \"The Macroeconomics of Aid (by Andrew Berg, Rafael Portillo, and Luis-Felipe Zanna) and \"The Building Blocks to Measure Inflation\" (by Mick Silver).",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Q&A in this issue features seven questions on the role of precautionary savings in open economies (by Damiano Sandri).\n- Research summaries in this issue:\n  - \"The Macroeconomics of Aid\" (by Andrew Berg, Rafael Portillo, and Luis-Felipe Zanna)\n  - \"The Building Blocks to Measure Inflation\" (by Mick Silver)\n- The issue also lists:\n  - the contents of the March 2011 issue of the IMF Economic Review, Volume 59 Number 1;\n  - visiting scholars at the IMF during January?March 2011;\n  - recent IMF Working Papers and Staff Discussion Notes."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Major themes and topics covered",
      "content": "- Precautionary savings in open economies\n- Aid and macroeconomic implications\n- Measurement of inflation and price indexes\n- Cross-cutting subjects: expenditure, financial crises, foreign exchange, national accounts, real exchange rates, public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP)\n- Region and issue coverage: Sub-Saharan Africa, shock transmission, cross-country incidence of the global crisis, global recession, evidence from the Crisis"
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    {
      "heading": "Subjects and keywords",
      "content": "- Subject: Expenditure, Financial crises, Foreign exchange, National accounts, Precautionary savings, Price indexes, Prices, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Real exchange rates\n- Keywords: cross-country incidence, economic policy issue, evidence from the Crisis, Global, global recession, IRB, Precautionary savings, Price indexes, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Real exchange rates, shock transmission, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Cross-Country Incidence of the Global Crisis\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. IMF Research Bulletin, March 2011.\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/imf-research-bulletin/issues/2016/12/31/imf-research-bulletin-march-2011-24641"
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    "Published: March 1, 2011",
    "Series: IMF Research Bulletin",
    "Volume: 59",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781455295661.026",
    "Q&A in this issue features seven questions on the role of precautionary savings in open economies (by Damiano Sandri).",
    "Research summaries in this issue:",
    "The issue also lists:",
    "Precautionary savings in open economies",
    "Aid and macroeconomic implications",
    "Measurement of inflation and price indexes",
    "Cross-cutting subjects: expenditure, financial crises, foreign exchange, national accounts, real exchange rates, public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP)",
    "Region and issue coverage: Sub-Saharan Africa, shock transmission, cross-country incidence of the global crisis, global recession, evidence from the Crisis",
    "Subject: Expenditure, Financial crises, Foreign exchange, National accounts, Precautionary savings, Price indexes, Prices, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Real exchange rates",
    "Keywords: cross-country incidence, economic policy issue, evidence from the Crisis, Global, global recession, IRB, Precautionary savings, Price indexes, Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP), Real exchange rates, shock transmission, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Cross-Country Incidence of the Global Crisis"
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