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  "title": "Ireland: Technical Assistance Report-Public Investment Management Assessment",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, November 10, 2017",
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  "summary": "This Technical Assistance Report discusses the results of the assessment of public investment management in Ireland. To support Ireland’s economic and social development to 2040, the government is preparing a new spatial planning strategy, dubbed the National Planning Framework.",
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      "heading": "Executive summary",
      "content": "- Publication date: November 10, 2017\n- Purpose: Assessment of public investment management in Ireland and guidance to support implementation of the government’s spatial planning strategy and associated capital planning.\n- Strategic horizon referenced: economic and social development to 2040.\n- Key government instruments discussed:\n  - National Planning Framework (new spatial planning strategy).\n  - Associated 10-year capital plan (both to be released at the end of 2017).\n- Geographic emphasis: development of urban areas outside Dublin, including four new Metropolitan Areas.\n- Document length: 62 pages.\n- Series and identifiers:\n  - Volume: 2017\n  - Issue: 333\n  - Series: Country Report No. 2017/333\n  - DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484326657.002\n  - Stock No: 1IRLEA2017004\n  - ISBN: 9781484326657\n  - ISSN: 1934-7685"
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      "heading": "Major findings",
      "content": "- The National Planning Framework and the associated 10-year capital plan are intended to redirect infrastructure investment to areas that cut across traditional departmental and sectoral boundaries.\n- The new strategy places strong emphasis on developing urban areas outside Dublin, highlighting four new Metropolitan Areas.\n- Alignment, integration, and realism across national, sectoral, regional, and local plans are essential to deliver the strategy’s objectives."
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      "heading": "Policy implications and recommendations",
      "content": "- Ensure coherence between the National Planning Framework and the 10-year capital plan to effectively redirect investment across departmental and sectoral boundaries.\n- Prioritize alignment and integration of national, sectoral, regional, and local plans to make development objectives realistic and implementable.\n- Target infrastructure investment to support urban development outside Dublin, with particular attention to the four new Metropolitan Areas."
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      "heading": "Thematic scope and keywords",
      "content": "- Subjects: Budget planning and preparation; Expenditure; Infrastructure; National accounts; Public financial management (PFM); Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP); Public investment spending.\n- Keywords: budget balance; Budget planning and preparation; business case; capital investment; capital stock; CR; economic analysis; financial crisis; Global; government program; Infrastructure; ISCR; policy priority; project manager; Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP); Public investment spending; public spending."
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      "content": "- Formats noted: Download PDF; More Formats on IMF eLibrary; Order a Print Copy.\n- Citation example provided in Chicago format on the landing page.\n\nSource: Ireland: Technical Assistance Report-Public Investment Management Assessment, IMF Staff Country Reports, November 10, 2017.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Country Report\n  - Country Report (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Country Report (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: November 10, 2017",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484326657.002",
    "Publication date: November 10, 2017",
    "Purpose: Assessment of public investment management in Ireland and guidance to support implementation of the government’s spatial planning strategy and associated capital planning.",
    "Strategic horizon referenced: economic and social development to 2040.",
    "Key government instruments discussed:",
    "Geographic emphasis: development of urban areas outside Dublin, including four new Metropolitan Areas.",
    "Document length: 62 pages.",
    "Series and identifiers:",
    "The National Planning Framework and the associated 10-year capital plan are intended to redirect infrastructure investment to areas that cut across traditional departmental and sectoral boundaries.",
    "The new strategy places strong emphasis on developing urban areas outside Dublin, highlighting four new Metropolitan Areas.",
    "Alignment, integration, and realism across national, sectoral, regional, and local plans are essential to deliver the strategy’s objectives.",
    "Ensure coherence between the National Planning Framework and the 10-year capital plan to effectively redirect investment across departmental and sectoral boundaries.",
    "Prioritize alignment and integration of national, sectoral, regional, and local plans to make development objectives realistic and implementable.",
    "Target infrastructure investment to support urban development outside Dublin, with particular attention to the four new Metropolitan Areas.",
    "Subjects: Budget planning and preparation; Expenditure; Infrastructure; National accounts; Public financial management (PFM); Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP); Public investment spending.",
    "Keywords: budget balance; Budget planning and preparation; business case; capital investment; capital stock; CR; economic analysis; financial crisis; Global; government program; Infrastructure; ISCR; policy priority; project manager; Public investment and public-private partnerships (PPP); Public investment spending; public spending.",
    "Formats noted: Download PDF; More Formats on IMF eLibrary; Order a Print Copy.",
    "Citation example provided in Chicago format on the landing page.",
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