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  "angle": "The Bangkok consensus: growth holds at 3.1% on AI, energy shocks drag — and central banks now treat climate as financial-stability risk.",
  "headline": "The Bangkok consensus: 3.1% growth on AI, an energy drag, and climate in the toolkit",
  "dek": "At the IMF's annual meetings in Bangkok, the growth story held at 3.1% on AI momentum, Europe's central bankers set a triple test, and Bank Indonesia showed how climate risk is moving inside macroprudential policy.",
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          "markdown": "IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva also warned about high public debt and rising sovereign bond yields, and the plenary flagged AI's own risks — youth unemployment, financial instability, and especially cyber risk. World Bank President Ajay Banga, meanwhile, reported progress on project preparation and the mobilization of private capital.",
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          "markdown": "Bank of Finland Governor Olli Rehn set Europe a triple test: take more responsibility for its own security as the European pillar of NATO, reduce dependence on imported fossil fuels through investment in renewables and nuclear power, and implement the Draghi report's roadmap for boosting European productivity through market integration, reduced red tape, and innovation investment.",
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          "markdown": "Europe's inflation is above target, mainly because of energy, Rehn said — but there is currently no evidence of second-round inflation effects, a data point the rate-setters will lean on. The European Systemic Risk Board, he noted, identifies geopolitics, AI valuation risks, and public debt as the three primary risks to the European financial system.",
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          "markdown": "His fix for the financing side: the Savings and Investments Union should be completed without delay, to channel Europeans' substantial savings into productive investment. A well-designed common safe asset, he argued, would deepen liquidity, provide safe collateral, and lower the cost of capital. Rehn also noted European banks held up through recent shocks on solid supervision, sturdy capital buffers and swift policy action — and contrasted Europe with the Asia-Pacific, which he called the world's growth engine, pointing to the EU's free trade agreements with India and Australia concluded this year.",
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          "markdown": "Bank Indonesia's toolkit is already live. It has run green loan-to-value and down-payment incentives since December 2019 — up to 100% LTV for green buildings and as low as 0% down payment for battery-based electric vehicles — plus the RPIM ratio, set by regulation PBI No.24/3/PBI/2022, and the KLM liquidity incentive, via PBI No.11 of 2023.",
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