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  "title": "Sierra Leone: Ex Post Assessment of Longer-Term Program Engagement",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, December 20, 2010",
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  "summary": "The political and security focus has shifted from post-conflict needs to consolidating gains on peace and stability. Macroeconomic stability has been re-established, and debt relief has improved the debt sustainability outlook.",
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      "heading": "Summary and key findings",
      "content": "- The political and security focus has shifted from post-conflict needs to consolidating gains on peace and stability.\n- Macroeconomic stability has been re-established.\n- Debt relief has improved the debt sustainability outlook.\n- These developments enabled a gradual switch in policy priorities toward creating an enabling environment for sustained growth.\n- Continued attention to capacity-building is needed.\n- The key fiscal objective is to improve revenue collection to create fiscal space for expanding priority spending.\n- The parsimonious use of structural conditionality should continue.\n- Collaboration with budget support donors should be further strengthened."
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      "heading": "Fiscal policy and public-financial management",
      "content": "- Key fiscal objective: improve revenue collection to create fiscal space for expanding priority spending.\n- Emphasis on public financial management (PFM) and expenditure prioritization to support growth-friendly spending."
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      "heading": "Structural reforms, conditionality, and capacity building",
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      "content": "- Subject areas listed: Budget planning and preparation, Central Banks, Civil service reform, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, International reserves, Labor, Macro-fiscal framework, Public financial management (PFM)."
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781455212927.002",
    "The political and security focus has shifted from post-conflict needs to consolidating gains on peace and stability.",
    "Macroeconomic stability has been re-established.",
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    "Recommendation: continue parsimonious use of structural conditionality.",
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    "Continued attention to capacity-building across institutions is highlighted as necessary.",
    "Subject areas listed: Budget planning and preparation, Central Banks, Civil service reform, Expenditure, Fiscal policy, International reserves, Labor, Macro-fiscal framework, Public financial management (PFM).",
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