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  "title": "Egypt: Beyond Stabilization. Toward a Dynamic Market Economy",
  "publication": "Occasional Papers, May 1, 1998",
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  "summary": "Determined macroeconomic policy, combined with favorable external developments, has reduced inflation, improved public finances, led to a stable currency, and helped strengthen the banking system in Egypt. Nonetheless, the task of delivering sustained growth of output and employment is incomplete.",
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      "content": "- Determined macroeconomic policy, combined with favorable external developments, has reduced inflation, improved public finances, led to a stable currency, and helped strengthen the banking system in Egypt.\n- Nonetheless, the task of delivering sustained growth of output and employment is incomplete.\n- This paper is a collection of studies focusing on economic developments in Egypt in the 1990s, a period of transformation toward a dynamic market economy."
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      "content": "- Balance of payments\n- Capital inflows\n- Commercial banks\n- Economic sectors\n- Financial institutions\n- Foreign exchange\n- Privatization\n- Public sector\n- Real exchange rates"
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      "content": "- Capital inflows\n- Commercial banks\n- community development development program\n- Egyptian pound\n- enterprise\n- equilibrium exchange rate model\n- exchange rate\n- Global\n- interest rate liberalization\n- investment financing\n- investment rate\n- Middle East\n- North Africa\n- OP\n- poverty alleviation policy\n- Privatization\n- privatization program\n- Public sector\n- rate\n- Real exchange rates\n- South Asia\n- Sub-Saharan Africa\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/occasional-papers/issues/2016/12/30/egypt-beyond-stabilization-2606"
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    "Authors: Howard Handy",
    "Published: May 1, 1998",
    "Series: Occasional Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557757203.084",
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