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  "title": "Reinvigorating Growth in Developing Countries: Lessons from Adjustment Policies in Eight Economies",
  "publication": "Occasional Papers, August 13, 1996",
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  "summary": "This study examines the links between adjustment policies and growth in a small group of developing countries- Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, India, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, and Thailand - during 1970 -93.",
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      "content": "- Study examines the links between adjustment policies and growth in a small group of developing countries during 1970 -93.\n- Provides an overview of the adjustment and growth experience, examines in depth several policy issues of particular interest, and distills the principal policy lessons for the design of adjustment policies."
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      "heading": "Countries and Period Covered",
      "content": "- Countries analyzed: Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, India, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, and Thailand.\n- Time period: 1970 -93."
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      "heading": "Study Scope and Themes",
      "content": "- Focus areas (Subjects): Labor, Labor markets, Macrostructural analysis, National accounts, Private investment, Real wages, Structural reforms, Tariffs, Taxes.\n- Keywords included in the source: adjustment policy, country, Global, growth differentials vis-a-vis, investment, investment decline, Labor markets, Middle East, OP, policy, Private investment, rate, real wage flexibility, Real wages, saving decline, Structural reforms, Tariffs, terms of trade movement, wage.\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/occasional-papers/issues/2016/12/30/reinvigorating-growth-in-developing-countries-lessons-from-adjustment-policies-in-eight-1553"
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    "Authors: Kalpana Kochhar, Erik Offerdal, Louis Dicks-Mireaux, Mauro Mecagni, Jianping Zhou, Balázs Horváth, David John Goldsbrough, Sharmini Coorey",
    "Published: August 13, 1996",
    "Series: Occasional Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557755599.084",
    "Study examines the links between adjustment policies and growth in a small group of developing countries during 1970 -93.",
    "Provides an overview of the adjustment and growth experience, examines in depth several policy issues of particular interest, and distills the principal policy lessons for the design of adjustment policies.",
    "Countries analyzed: Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, India, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, and Thailand.",
    "Time period: 1970 -93.",
    "Focus areas (Subjects): Labor, Labor markets, Macrostructural analysis, National accounts, Private investment, Real wages, Structural reforms, Tariffs, Taxes.",
    "Keywords included in the source: adjustment policy, country, Global, growth differentials vis-a-vis, investment, investment decline, Labor markets, Middle East, OP, policy, Private investment, rate, real wage flexibility, Real wages, saving decline, Structural reforms, Tariffs, terms of trade movement, wage."
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