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Twelfth General Review of Quotas—
Preliminary Considerations and Next Steps
Prepared by the Treasurer's Department
(In consultation with other departments)

January 22, 2002

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Contents
I.   Introduction
II.   The Changing World Economy and The Evolving Role of
the Fund
III.   The Implications for the Fund’s Resource Base
IV.   Work Program and Issues for Discussion
A.  Work Program
B.  Issues for Discussion 
Annexes
The Distribution of Selective Quota Increases
Basic Votes
Boxes
1.  Changes in Fund Facilities
2.  Private Sector Involvement (PSI)
3.  The Resource Base of the Fund—The Role of Owned and
     Borrowed Resources
Tables
    1.  GRA Commitments, 1990–2001
    2.  The Fund’s General Resources Account—Commitments,
     Total Purchases and Fund  Credit Outstanding, 1990–2001
    3.  Actual and Calculated Size of the Fund
Figures
    1.  Annual New Financial Commitments in the General Resources
     Account During Calendar Year, 1990–2001
    2.  Ratios of Agreed Size of the Fund to Calculated Quotas and
     Current Payments, 1978–1999