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  "summary": "It provides English terms with their equivalents in a number of languages.",
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      "heading": "Description of the IMF Multilingual Terminology Database (IMF TermBase)",
      "content": "- The IMF Multilingual Terminology Database (IMF TermBase) is a collection of terms, phrases, acronyms, and institutional titles covering a broad variety of areas of IMF work.\n- It provides English terms with their equivalents in a number of languages.\n- The database contains over 17,000 entries and acronyms encountered in IMF documents in areas such as money and banking, public finance, balance of payments, and economic growth.\n- It lists equivalent translations in Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.\n- The database is constantly being updated and expanded by IMF Language Services to stay abreast of the latest developments in the living economic language of the international community."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Access and Use",
      "content": "- Users can access the IMF TermBase and are advised to follow provided instructions to facilitate searches.\n- The database is available in read-only mode to public users."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Feedback and Corrections",
      "content": "- Send your Comments or Questions to: terminology@imf.org\n- If errors are noticed in the database, users are encouraged to bring them to IMF Language Services' attention; IMF Language Services will make best efforts to correct them promptly."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Legal and Liability Notice",
      "content": "- The Terminology database was initially developed for IMF Language Services to serve as a reference tool.\n- Public users can now consult the read-only database via IMF channels.\n- The Fund is not responsible nor liable whatsoever with regard to the data in the IMF TermBase."
    }
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    "The IMF Multilingual Terminology Database (IMF TermBase) is a collection of terms, phrases, acronyms, and institutional titles covering a broad variety of areas of IMF work.",
    "It provides English terms with their equivalents in a number of languages.",
    "The database contains over 17,000 entries and acronyms encountered in IMF documents in areas such as money and banking, public finance, balance of payments, and economic growth.",
    "It lists equivalent translations in Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.",
    "The database is constantly being updated and expanded by IMF Language Services to stay abreast of the latest developments in the living economic language of the international community.",
    "Users can access the IMF TermBase and are advised to follow provided instructions to facilitate searches.",
    "The database is available in read-only mode to public users.",
    "Send your Comments or Questions to: terminology@imf.org",
    "If errors are noticed in the database, users are encouraged to bring them to IMF Language Services' attention; IMF Language Services will make best efforts to correct them promptly.",
    "The Terminology database was initially developed for IMF Language Services to serve as a reference tool.",
    "Public users can now consult the read-only database via IMF channels.",
    "The Fund is not responsible nor liable whatsoever with regard to the data in the IMF TermBase.",
    "**Instructions to Use IMF TermBase**"
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