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  "title": "Managing Sovereign Debt and Debt Markets through a Crisis - Practical Insights and Policy Lessons",
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  "summary": "The crisis highlighted the importance of debt management in containing debt-related risks and the associated impact on debt markets. The impact of the crisis on debt levels, and the consequent implications for fiscal consolidation, has been the subject of much discussion and analysis.",
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      "content": "- Publication date: April 18, 2011\n- Core observation: The crisis highlighted the importance of debt management in containing debt-related risks and the associated impact on debt markets.\n- Focus gap identified: Relatively less attention was given to how debt should be managed, including how its composition should be structured to mitigate key risk exposures and implications for debt market functioning."
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      "content": "- The crisis had a significant impact on debt levels and raised consequential implications for fiscal consolidation.\n- Debt management plays a central role in containing debt-related risks and in influencing debt market outcomes.\n- Structuring the composition of debt is critical to mitigating key risk exposures.\n- Managing sovereign debt and debt markets through the crisis proved significantly complex and challenging, particularly in advanced economies.\n- The crisis revealed additional dimensions of risk that complicated debt management strategies."
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      "content": "- Cross country analysis\n- Debt management\n- Developed countries\n- Emerging markets\n- Financial crisis\n- Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009\n- Risk management\n- Sovereign debt"
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    "Core observation: The crisis highlighted the importance of debt management in containing debt-related risks and the associated impact on debt markets.",
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