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  "title": "Spain: Converging with the European Community",
  "publication": "Occasional Papers, January 15, 1993",
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  "summary": "Spain's participation in European integration has strengthened its policymaking credibility and created an enviroment conducive to sustainable economic growth.",
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      "heading": "Summary findings",
      "content": "- Spain's participation in European integration has \"strengthened its policymaking credibility and created an enviroment conducive to sustainable economic growth.\"\n- \"Over the last decade, Spain has seen improvements in inflation, output, employment, and its balance of payments.\"\n- Spain \"has substantially reformed its product, labor, and financial markets.\"\n- The paper \"reviews Spain's past economic performance and sees good prospects for further rises in living standards.\""
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      "heading": "Publication and authorship",
      "content": "- Authors: Gonzalo C Pastor Campos, Thierry Pujol, Michel Galy\n- Publication date: January 15, 1993\n- Series: Occasional Paper No. 1993/001\n- Issue: 001\n- Pages: 65\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557753199.084\n- ISBN: 9781557753199\n- ISSN: 0251-6365\n- Stock No: S101EA0000000\n- Volume: 1993"
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      "heading": "Subject areas and keywords",
      "content": "- Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Income and capital gains taxes, Income tax systems, Revenue administration, Taxes, Total expenditures\n- Keywords: Commercial banks, core EC country, EC country, Europe, exchange rate., fiscal decentralization process, Global, government, income, Income and capital gains taxes, income tax, Income tax systems, market, OP, policy credibility, regional government, Total expenditures, transition process"
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    {
      "heading": "Key takeaways for policymakers and analysts",
      "content": "- European integration is linked with enhanced policy credibility in Spain.\n- Market-oriented reforms across product, labor, and financial sectors are identified as important elements of Spain's recent economic improvements.\n- Continued convergence with the European Community is presented as consistent with \"good prospects for further rises in living standards.\"\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. Spain: Converging with the European Community. Occasional Paper No. 1993/001 (January 15, 1993).\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/occasional-papers/issues/2016/12/30/spain-converging-with-the-european-community-47"
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    "Authors: Gonzalo C Pastor Campos, Thierry Pujol, Michel Galy",
    "Published: January 15, 1993",
    "Series: Occasional Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557753199.084",
    "Spain's participation in European integration has \"strengthened its policymaking credibility and created an enviroment conducive to sustainable economic growth.\"",
    "\"Over the last decade, Spain has seen improvements in inflation, output, employment, and its balance of payments.\"",
    "Spain \"has substantially reformed its product, labor, and financial markets.\"",
    "The paper \"reviews Spain's past economic performance and sees good prospects for further rises in living standards.\"",
    "Authors: Gonzalo C Pastor Campos, Thierry Pujol, Michel Galy",
    "Publication date: January 15, 1993",
    "Series: Occasional Paper No. 1993/001",
    "Issue: 001",
    "Pages: 65",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557753199.084",
    "ISBN: 9781557753199",
    "ISSN: 0251-6365",
    "Stock No: S101EA0000000",
    "Volume: 1993",
    "Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Income and capital gains taxes, Income tax systems, Revenue administration, Taxes, Total expenditures",
    "Keywords: Commercial banks, core EC country, EC country, Europe, exchange rate., fiscal decentralization process, Global, government, income, Income and capital gains taxes, income tax, Income tax systems, market, OP, policy credibility, regional government, Total expenditures, transition process",
    "European integration is linked with enhanced policy credibility in Spain.",
    "Market-oriented reforms across product, labor, and financial sectors are identified as important elements of Spain's recent economic improvements.",
    "Continued convergence with the European Community is presented as consistent with \"good prospects for further rises in living standards.\""
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