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  "title": "Botswana: Technical Assistance Report-Banking Sector Safety Net and Crisis Management",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, March 7, 2017",
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  "summary": "This Technical Assistance Report evaluates the banking sector safety net and crisis management in Botswana. The current legislative framework guiding bank resolution and financial sector crisis management is weak, and the authorities have embarked on a revision.",
  "publishDate": "2017-03-07",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Publication date: March 7, 2017\n- Type: IMF Staff Country Reports\n- Pages: 108\n- Series: Country Report No. 2017/049\n- Issue: 049\n- Volume: 2017\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475578720.002\n- Stock No: 1BWAEA2017001\n- ISBN: 9781475578720\n- ISSN: 1934-7685"
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      "heading": "Main findings",
      "content": "- The current legislative framework guiding bank resolution and financial sector crisis management in Botswana is weak.\n- The Bank of Botswana lacks some of the legal powers required for implementing corrective action for banks that:\n  - are in breach of prudential requirements, or\n  - are conducting business in an unsound or unsafe manner.\n- Key elements for a corrective action framework are lacking, including:\n  - a contingency plan for dealing with weak banks, and\n  - guidance on indicative remedial measures based on well-defined triggers.\n- Major amendments to the legal framework are needed.\n- Authorities have embarked on a revision of the legislative framework."
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      "heading": "Scope and subject coverage",
      "content": "- Asset and liability management\n- Bank resolution\n- Bank resolution framework\n- Banking\n- Deposit insurance\n- Financial crises\n- Lender of last resort\n- Liquidity"
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      "content": "- bank distress\n- Bank resolution\n- Bank resolution framework\n- banking group\n- bridge bank\n- CR\n- Deposit insurance\n- financial support\n- Global\n- ISCR\n- Lender of last resort\n- Liquidity\n- monetary policy\n- parent bank\n- resolution framework"
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