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  "base": "n/a",
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  "revisionPolicy": "Each year passes through three stages: the budget estimate (February before the year), the revised estimate (February of the year) and the accounts (provisional in May after the year, audited later). The RBI's tables restate a year as it moves from one stage to the next; each stage is kept as its own series.",
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}