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  "title": "IMF Staff Papers, Volume 52, No. 1",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Papers, April 18, 2005",
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  "summary": "This first issue of IMF Staff Papers for 2005 contains 7 papers that discuss: whether output recovered after the Asian crisis; the value of a country's trading partners to its own economic growth; whether interdependence is a factor in understanding the spread of currency crises; can remittance paym",
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      "heading": "Summary / Contents",
      "content": "- This first issue of IMF Staff Papers for 2005 contains 7 papers that discuss:\n  - whether output recovered after the Asian crisis;\n  - the value of a country's trading partners to its own economic growth;\n  - whether interdependence is a factor in understanding the spread of currency crises;\n  - can remittance payments from expatriates be a reliable source of capital for economic development?;\n  - total factor productivity;\n  - designing a VAT for the energy trade in Russia and Ukraine; and\n  - a discussion of the reasons for central bank intervention in ERM-I since 1993."
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    {
      "heading": "Key topics and themes",
      "content": "- Balance of payments\n- Conventional peg\n- Exchange rates\n- Foreign exchange\n- Production\n- Remittances\n- Taxes\n- Total factor productivity\n- Value-added tax"
    },
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      "heading": "Keywords (as listed)",
      "content": "- Baltics\n- Central Asia\n- Conventional peg\n- crisis probability\n- East Asia\n- Europe\n- Exchange rates\n- Global\n- Middle East\n- North Africa\n- output loss\n- recession state\n- Remittances\n- SP\n- Sub-Saharan Africa\n- TFP estimate\n- Total factor productivity\n- trading partner\n- Value-added tax\n- worker remittance\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/imf-staff-papers/issues/2016/12/31/imf-staff-papers-volume-52-no-17894"
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    "Published: April 18, 2005",
    "Series: IMF Staff Papers",
    "Volume: 52",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589064195.024",
    "This first issue of IMF Staff Papers for 2005 contains 7 papers that discuss:",
    "Balance of payments",
    "Conventional peg",
    "Exchange rates",
    "Foreign exchange",
    "Production",
    "Remittances",
    "Taxes",
    "Total factor productivity",
    "Value-added tax",
    "Baltics",
    "Central Asia",
    "Conventional peg",
    "crisis probability",
    "East Asia",
    "Europe",
    "Exchange rates",
    "Global",
    "Middle East",
    "North Africa",
    "output loss",
    "recession state",
    "Remittances",
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