Making the Misreporting Policies Less Onerous in De Minimis Cases

Date:	July 5, 2006
Electronic Access:	Full Text
Subject(s):	Performance criteria | Article VIII, Section 5 | Policy Support Instrument | HIPC Initiative
Summary: The Managing Director's Medium-Term Strategy referred to complex misreporting procedures for even trivial forms of misreporting and called for streamlining. This paper presents a proposal to reduce the burden of the Fund’s misreporting policies in cases involving de minimis deviations from program conditions. The proposal is to consider deviations from a performance criterion or other condition to be de minimis where they are so small as to be trivial with no impact on the assessment of program performance.