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Public Information Notice: IMF Board Discusses the Fund's Role in Signaling Assessments of Members' Policies, February 13, 2003
Signaling by the Fund—A Historical Review, July 16, 2004
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Signaling Assessments of Members' Policies
Prepared by the Policy Development and Review Department
January 8, 2003
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Contents
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I. Introduction
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II. Monitoring
for Signaling Purposes
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Signaling SMPs: Key Concern
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B.
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Monitoring to Signal Assessments of a
Member's Economic Policies: A Modified Approach |
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III. Ad
Hoc Signaling Through "Comfort Letters": Experience
and Proposed Policy
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| IV. Summary and Issues for Discussion |
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Appendices
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| Appendix I |
Enhanced Surveillance: Modalities
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| Appendix
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Fund Monitored Programs:
Modalities and Experience |
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Appendix III
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Staff Monitored Programs:
Evolution, Modalities and Experience |
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"Comfort Letters"--Background
and Practices
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| Boxes |
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| Box A.1 |
Modalities of Staff-Monitored
Programs
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| Appendix Tables |
| Table A1. |
Signaling SMPs: Reporting
on Initiation and Performance |
| Table A2. |
Recent Experience with "Comfort
Letters" |
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