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  "title": "IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), Safeguarding Macroeconomic Stability at Low Inflation, October 1999 -- Contents",
  "publication": "World Economic Outlook, September 22, 1999",
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  "summary": "The October 1999 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Table of Contents with links to the full text in PDF format",
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    {
      "heading": "Purpose and scope of the World Economic Outlook (as stated)",
      "content": "- Presents the IMF staff’s analysis and projections of economic developments:\n  - at the global level,\n  - in major country groups (classified by region, stage of development, etc.),\n  - and in many individual countries.\n- Focuses on major economic policy issues and on analysis of economic developments and prospects.\n- Usual schedule: prepared twice a year as documentation for meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee, and forms the main instrument of the IMF’s global surveillance activities."
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    {
      "heading": "Front matter and supporting material",
      "content": "- Contents sections listed:\n  - Assumptions and Conventions\n  - Further Information and Data\n  - Preface\n- Appendix: Year 2000 Contingency Planning (listed under Chapter I)\n- Annex: Summing Up by the Chairman\n- Statistical Appendix includes:\n  - Assumptions\n  - Data and Conventions\n  - Classification of Countries\n  - List of Tables\n  - Output (Tables 1–7)\n  - Inflation (Tables 8–13)\n  - Financial Policies (Tables 14–21)\n  - Foreign Trade (Tables 22–26)\n  - Current Account Transactions (Tables 27–32)\n  - Balance of Payments and External Financing (Tables 33–37)\n  - External Debt and Debt Service (Tables 38–43)\n  - Flow of Funds (Table 44)\n  - Medium-Term Baseline Scenario (Tables 45–46)\n  - World Economic Outlook and Staff Studies for the World Economic Outlook, Selected Topics, 1992–99"
    },
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      "heading": "Chapter-level organization and key thematic headings",
      "content": "- Chapter I. World Economic Outlook and the Challenges of Global Adjustment\n  - Macroeconomic Stability and the Forces of Globalization: Lessons from the 1990s\n  - The Inevitable U.S. Slowdown and Adjustment\n  - Japan: Recovery in Sight?\n  - Securing a Lasting Revival of Growth in Europe\n  - Emerging Market Economies in Asia and Latin America: Ensuring Sustainable Recoveries\n  - Middle East and Africa: Varying Responses to Adjustment Pressures\n  - After a Decade of Transition: Widening Gaps Between Strong and Weak Performers\n  - Appendix: Year 2000 Contingency Planning\n  - Boxes: 1.1–1.5 (titles listed in source)\n  - Tables: Overview of the World Economic Outlook Projections; Selected Economies: Current Account Positions; Advanced Economies: Real GDP, Consumer Prices, and Unemployment; Major Industrial Countries: General Government Fiscal Balances and Debt; Selected Developing Countries: Real GDP and Consumer Prices; 1.6; 1.7\n  - Figures: Global Indicators; Financing Conditions for Emerging Markets; Selected European Countries, Japan, and the United States: Indicators of Consumer and Business Confidence; Y2K Interest Rate Spike\n\n- Chapter II. From Crisis to Recovery in the Emerging Market Economies\n  - Improving Financial Conditions\n  - Patterns of Recovery in Asia and Latin America\n  - Structural Reform Requirements in Crisis-Hit Asian Economies: Conditions for a Durable Recovery\n  - Russia and Neighboring Countries in Transition: Prospects for Recovery and Reform\n  - Boxes: 2.1–2.8 (titles listed in source)\n  - Tables/Figures referenced in source: Gross Private Financing to Emerging Market Economies; Emerging Market Economies: Net Capital Flows; Financial Sector Restructuring; Russian Federation: Macroeconomic Indicators, 1996–99; Countries in Transition: Average Annual Growth Rates in 1994–98, and 1998 GDP Per Capita in U.S. Dollar Purchasing Power Parity Terms; Countries in Transition: Structural Reform Indicators, 1994–98 Averages; 2.7; Selected Emerging Market Economies: Short-Term Interest Rates; Selected Emerging Market Economies: Bilateral U.S. Dollar Exchange Rates; Emerging Market Economies: Equity Prices; Selected Emerging Market Countries: Eurobond Yield Spreads and Brady Bond Spreads; Selected Emerging Market Economies: Real GDP; Selected Asian and Latin American Economies: Real Effective Exchange Rates; Selected East Asian and Latin American Countries: Bank Credit to the Private Sector and Total External Debt, 1998; 2.8\n\n- Chapter III. Growth Divergences in the United States, Europe, and Japan: Trend or Cyclical?\n  - Assessing the Sustainable Level of Output\n  - The United States: Will the Good Times Endure?\n  - Japan: Why the Decade of Lost Growth May Be an Aberration\n  - Can Europe Grow Faster?\n  - Alternative Scenarios: Harder Landing or Higher World Growth?\n  - Boxes/tables: 3.1–3.12 (titles listed in source)\n  - Figures referenced: United States, the Euro Area, and Japan: Economic Performance Indicators; United States, the Euro Area, and Japan: Vintages of Potential Output Growth and Output Gaps; United States, the Euro Area, and Japan: Output Per Employee and Per Head of Population; United States: Output, Labor Productivity, and Inflation in Recent Expansions; 3.5–3.11\n\n- Chapter IV. The Achievement of Reasonable Price Stability\n  - Can Inflation Be Too Low?\n  - Price Stability and Macroeconomic Stability\n  - Asset Prices and Monetary Policy\n  - Boxes/tables: 4.1–4.8 (titles listed in source)\n  - Figures referenced: Selected Countries: Measurement Bias in the Consumer Price Index; Deflation and Output Growth; Pronounced Changes in Real Equity Prices; Selected Countries: Illustrative Examples of Potential Stock Market Overvaluation (First Quarter, 1999); Selected Countries: Correlation of Equity Price Inflation and Goods Price Inflation; Industrial Countries: Consumer Price Inflation; Hypothetical Distribution of Nominal Wage Increases; Selected Countries: Short-Term Interest Rates; Industrial Countries: Output Gap and Inflation; Comparison of Two Stock Market Crashes; Selected Countries: Stock Prices; Selected Countries: Measures of Stock Market Valuation; Selected Countries: Net Financial Balances; Global Liquidity\n\n- Chapter V. Trends and Issues in the Global Trading System\n  - Trends in Trade and Policies\n  - Current Issues and the New Round\n  - Table and figures: 5.1–5.3 (titles listed in source)\n\n- Chapter VI. Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Performance, Impediments, and Policy Requirements\n  - Past Growth in SSA Countries and Its Relationship to Policies\n  - Improving SSA's Growth Performance Further\n  - The Path to Sustained Growth\n  - Box: 6.1 (Africa and World Trends in Military Spending)\n  - Tables/figures: 6.2–6.5 (titles listed in source)\n  - Comparative items: Sub-Saharan Africa and Other Developing Country Groups: Education and Health; External Performance; Quality of Governance, Institutions, and Public Services; Financial and Infrastructure Indicators; Selected Debt Sustainability Indicators; Growth, Investment, and Saving; Inflation and Fiscal Balance"
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      "heading": "Boxes, tables, and figures indexing (selected labels preserved)",
      "content": "- Boxes enumerated across chapters: 1.1–1.5; 2.1–2.8; 3.1–3.12; 4.1–4.8; 5.1–5.3; 6.1–6.5\n- Statistical tables enumerated in the Statistical Appendix: Tables 1–46 (grouped by topic as listed above)\n\nIMF World Economic Outlook (WEO), Safeguarding Macroeconomic Stability at Low Inflation, October 1999 — Contents\n\n---\n\n\n References\n\n- World Economic Outlook, September 1999\n- About the WEO Database\n- Sign up to receive free e-mail notices when new series and/or country items are posted on the IMF website.\n- Modify your profile\n- International Monetary Fund\n- Disclaimer\n- Adobe Acrobat Reader\n- Tips for using PDF files\n- https://www.imf.org/en/home\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/weo/issues/2016/12/31/safeguarding-macroeconomic-stability-at-low-inflation"
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    "Published: September 22, 1999",
    "Series: World Economic Outlook",
    "Presents the IMF staff’s analysis and projections of economic developments:",
    "Focuses on major economic policy issues and on analysis of economic developments and prospects.",
    "Usual schedule: prepared twice a year as documentation for meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee, and forms the main instrument of the IMF’s global surveillance activities.",
    "Contents sections listed:",
    "Appendix: Year 2000 Contingency Planning (listed under Chapter I)",
    "Annex: Summing Up by the Chairman",
    "Statistical Appendix includes:",
    "Chapter I. World Economic Outlook and the Challenges of Global Adjustment",
    "Chapter II. From Crisis to Recovery in the Emerging Market Economies",
    "Chapter III. Growth Divergences in the United States, Europe, and Japan: Trend or Cyclical?",
    "Chapter IV. The Achievement of Reasonable Price Stability",
    "Chapter V. Trends and Issues in the Global Trading System",
    "Chapter VI. Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Performance, Impediments, and Policy Requirements",
    "Boxes enumerated across chapters: 1.1–1.5; 2.1–2.8; 3.1–3.12; 4.1–4.8; 5.1–5.3; 6.1–6.5",
    "Statistical tables enumerated in the Statistical Appendix: Tables 1–46 (grouped by topic as listed above)",
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