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  "title": "Sri Lanka: Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, and Use of Fund Resources—Request for an Extended Arrangement—Staff Report; Staff Statement; News Brief on the Executive Board Discussion",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, April 22, 2003",
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  "summary": "This paper examines Sri Lanka’s Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF), and a Request for an Extended Arrangement.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Publication date: April 22, 2003\n- Nature: IMF Staff Country Report examining a Request for a Three-Year Arrangement under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) and a Request for an Extended Arrangement.\n- Context: Builds on progress under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) and aligns with the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP).\n- Page count: 98\n- Series: Country Report No. 2003/107\n- Issue: 107\n- Volume: 2003\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451823486.002\n- ISBN: 9781451823486\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n- Stock No: 1LKAEA0022003"
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      "heading": "Program objectives and scope",
      "content": "- Program aims:\n  - Accelerate economic growth.\n  - Reduce poverty.\n- Support framework:\n  - PRGF-Enhanced Fund Facility (EFF)-supported program.\n  - Builds on progress made under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA).\n- Operational recommendation:\n  - IMF staff recommends extension to the obligations schedule of SBA repurchase expectations arising during July 2003–June 2004."
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      "heading": "Key thematic areas covered",
      "content": "- Banking\n- Economic sectors\n- Expenditure\n- Labor\n- Monetary base\n- Poverty\n- Public debt\n- Public sector"
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      "heading": "Keywords and technical terms preserved from the report",
      "content": "- broad money\n- broad money growth\n- CR\n- financing detail\n- GDP\n- Global\n- ISCR\n- labor market\n- net domestic assets\n- private sector\n- Public sector\n- tea export"
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      "content": "- Download format: PDF (available via IMF eLibrary)\n- Related portal items: Sri Lanka and the IMF; IMF eLibrary offers over 25,000 IMF publications.\n- Citation format example provided in source.\n\nSource: IMF Staff Country Reports — \"Sri Lanka: Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, and Use of Fund Resources—Request for an Extended Arrangement—Staff Report; Staff Statement; News Brief on the Executive Board Discussion\", April 22, 2003.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- cr03107\n  - cr03107 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - cr03107 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451823486.002",
    "Publication date: April 22, 2003",
    "Nature: IMF Staff Country Report examining a Request for a Three-Year Arrangement under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) and a Request for an Extended Arrangement.",
    "Context: Builds on progress under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) and aligns with the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP).",
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