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  "title": "Sierra Leone: First Review Under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement, Request for Modification of Performance Criteria, and Financing Assurances Review-Staff Report; and Press Release",
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  "summary": "This paper discusses Sierra Leone’s First Review Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) Arrangement, Request for Modification of Performance Criteria (PC), and Financing Assurances Review. Program performance has been strong.",
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      "heading": "Program performance and compliance",
      "content": "- Program performance has been strong.\n- All Performance Criteria (PCs) were met with comfortable margins.\n- All Indicative Targets (ITs) were met, except:\n  - The IT on poverty-related spending was missed owing to enhanced monitoring of domestic investment execution and delayed budget support."
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      "heading": "Economic outcomes and indicators",
      "content": "- Economic growth momentum continued in 2013, with output expanding by 20 percent.\n- Subjects covered in the report include:\n  - Banking\n  - Budget planning and preparation\n  - Economic and financial statistics\n  - Expenditure\n  - Fiscal policy\n  - Fiscal stance\n  - Monetary statistics\n  - Public debt\n  - Public financial management (PFM)"
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      "content": "- The IMF staff recommends completion of the first review under the ECF arrangement."
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      "content": "- Publication date: June 26, 2014\n- Pages: 64\n- Volume: 2014\n- Issue: 171\n- Series: Country Report No. 2014/171\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781498355568.002\n- Stock No: 1SLEEA2014001\n- ISBN: 9781498355568\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n- Keywords: Africa; Budget planning and preparation; consumer price inflation; CR; disbursement of an amount equivalent; ECF arrangement; economic growth momentum; financial asset; Fiscal stance; Global; ISCR; Monetary statistics; SDR\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. Sierra Leone: First Review Under the Extended Credit Facility Arrangement, Request for Modification of Performance Criteria, and Financing Assurances Review-Staff Report; and Press Release; June 26, 2014.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Cr14171\n  - Cr14171 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Cr14171 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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