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      "content": "- Job creation and growth with inclusion are imperatives that resonate today in every country.\n- Advanced countries face the challenge of supporting aggregate demand with limited fiscal space in the aftermath of the Great Recession.\n- Many countries must generate growth and create jobs in the face of strong ongoing global megatrends: technological change, globalization, and significant shifts in demographic trends.\n- Demographic shifts highlighted include rapid population aging in some parts of the world, and the entry of a large number of new workers into the labor force in others.\n- Low female labor force participation represents a significant missed opportunity to strengthen economic development and growth in many countries."
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      "content": "- Advanced economies: need to support aggregate demand while constrained by limited fiscal space post-Great Recession.\n- Emerging and developing economies: must create sufficient jobs amid technological change and globalization.\n- Demographics:\n  - Rapid population aging in some regions.\n  - Large cohorts of new labor market entrants in other regions.\n- Gender dimension: low female labor force participation is an important barrier to stronger growth and development."
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      "content": "- Policy frameworks should address:\n  - Balancing aggregate demand support with fiscal constraints in advanced economies.\n  - Policies to raise job creation and growth in the context of technological change and globalization.\n  - Strategies to manage demographic pressures—both aging populations and large inflows of new workers.\n  - Measures to increase female labor force participation to unlock growth potential."
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    "Advanced countries face the challenge of supporting aggregate demand with limited fiscal space in the aftermath of the Great Recession.",
    "Many countries must generate growth and create jobs in the face of strong ongoing global megatrends: technological change, globalization, and significant shifts in demographic trends.",
    "Demographic shifts highlighted include rapid population aging in some parts of the world, and the entry of a large number of new workers into the labor force in others.",
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    "Advanced economies: need to support aggregate demand while constrained by limited fiscal space post-Great Recession.",
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