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  "title": "Financial Sector Assessment: A Handbook",
  "publication": "Manuals & Guides, September 29, 2005",
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  "summary": "The Handbook presents an overall analytical framework for assessing financial system stability and developmental needs, providing broad guidance on approaches, methodologies, and techniques of assessing financial systems.",
  "publishDate": "2005-09-29",
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      "heading": "Overview / Purpose",
      "content": "- Presents an overall analytical framework for assessing financial system stability and developmental needs.\n- Provides broad guidance on approaches, methodologies, and techniques of assessing financial systems.\n- Draws substantially on World Bank and IMF experience with the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) and broader policy and operational work in both institutions.\n- Designed for generic use in financial sector assessments, whether conducted by country authorities themselves, or by World Bank and IMF teams."
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      "heading": "Key Findings and Focus Areas",
      "content": "- Intended coverage and analytical focus:\n  - Financial system stability\n  - Developmental needs of financial systems\n  - Approaches, methodologies, and techniques for assessment\n- Subject classifications listed:\n  - Banking\n  - Economic sectors\n  - Financial sector\n  - Financial sector policy and analysis\n  - Financial sector stability\n  - Financial services\n  - Financial soundness indicators\n  - Legal support in revenue administration\n  - Revenue administration"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Keywords / Geographic and Thematic Scope",
      "content": "- Keywords explicitly associated with the Handbook:\n  - AML-CFT regime\n  - Asia and Pacific\n  - bank\n  - Caribbean\n  - Central and Eastern Europe\n  - company\n  - Europe\n  - financial institution\n  - Financial sector\n  - Financial sector stability\n  - Financial soundness indicators\n  - Global\n  - Legal support in revenue administration\n  - M&G\n  - market\n  - market development\n  - market liquidity\n  - market participant\n  - microfinance sector\n  - Southern Africa"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target Users and Use Cases",
      "content": "- Country authorities conducting self-assessments of financial systems.\n- World Bank and IMF teams conducting FSAPs or other financial sector assessments.\n- Analysts and policymakers seeking a modular framework covering stability and development aspects of financial sectors.\n\nSource: International Monetary Fund — Financial Sector Assessment: A Handbook (Web landing page summary).\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/manuals-guides/issues/2017/01/01/financial-sector-assessment-a-handbook-18600"
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9780821364321.069",
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    "Provides broad guidance on approaches, methodologies, and techniques of assessing financial systems.",
    "Draws substantially on World Bank and IMF experience with the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) and broader policy and operational work in both institutions.",
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