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  "title": "IMF Resident Representative Office in Seychelles",
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  "summary": "Information about the activities of the IMF office in Seychelles. Additional information about the country can be found on Seychelles and the IMF, including IMF reports and Executive Board documents that cover with Seychelles.",
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      "type": "resrep",
      "heading": "Resident Representative for Seychelles",
      "lines": [
        {
          "text": "Farayi Gwenhamo"
        },
        {
          "text": "Resident Representative"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "office",
      "heading": "Office Information",
      "lines": [
        {
          "text": "Liberty House"
        },
        {
          "text": "Victoria, Mahé, Seychelles"
        },
        {
          "text": "email: RR-SYC@imf.org",
          "href": "mailto:RR-SYC@imf.org",
          "linkText": "RR-SYC@imf.org",
          "links": [
            {
              "href": "mailto:RR-SYC@imf.org",
              "linkText": "RR-SYC@imf.org"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "text": "phone: + (248) 438 2015"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "country",
      "heading": "At A Glance",
      "lines": [
        {
          "text": "• Current IMF membership: 191 countries"
        },
        {
          "text": "• Seychelles joined the IMF on June 30, 1977"
        },
        {
          "text": "• Total Quotas: SDR 22.9 million"
        },
        {
          "text": "• Outstanding Purchases and Loans: 90.58 million (March 31, 2023)"
        },
        {
          "text": "• Article IV/Country Report July 26, 2022"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Seychelles and the IMF",
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  "bullets": [
    "The IMF Resident Representative in Seychelles is Farayi Gwenhamo.",
    "The IMF office in Seychelles provides information on the activities of the IMF office, views of IMF staff, and the relations between Seychelles and the IMF.",
    "Additional information about Seychelles and the IMF, including official IMF reports and Executive Board documents, is available through the IMF’s Seychelles country resources.",
    "World Economic Outlook",
    "Global Financial Stability Report",
    "Fiscal Monitor",
    "Annual Report of the Executive Board",
    "The IMF’s Departmental African Paper Series: research on sub-Saharan Africa by IMF staff; views are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF, its Executive Board, or IMF Management.",
    "Publication date: April 16, 2026 — Hard-Won Gains Under Pressure",
    "The IMF cautions that several variants of financial scam letters purporting to be sanctioned by the IMF or authored by high ranking IMF officials are currently in circulation.",
    "Scam letters may appear on official letterhead containing the IMF logo and instruct potential victims to contact the IMF for issuance of a “Certificate of International Capital Transfer” or other forms of approval to receive large sums of monies as beneficiaries.",
    "Contact e-mail information provided in such scam letters is always BOGUS; unsuspecting individuals are requested to send personal banking details which scammers utilize for fraudulent activities.",
    "For more information, consult IMF guidance on fraudulent scam emails using the name of the IMF.",
    "[Seychelles and the IMF](https://www.imf.org/en/countries/resrep/syc#SYC%20IMF)"
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