Monetary and Capital Markets Department: Technical Assistance Handbook
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- Monetary and Capital Markets Department: Technical Assistance Handbook
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Bibliographic details
- Published: May 13, 2026
Purpose (Why?)
- Distill, document and make widely available lessons learnt from MCM technical assistance (TA) over a long period of time while incorporating lessons learnt globally.
- Highlight and promote good practices and support the consistency of MCM’s advice.
- Recognize that one size solutions can not fit all; all advice needs to be tailored to country-specific circumstances.
- Target challenges faced by authorities in emerging and low-income countries and in countries that manage substantial natural resource wealth.
Scope and Content (What?)
- The handbook comprises self-contained, issue-specific chapters with cross-references on overlapping issues where needed.
- Chapters will be added as they are available and may be updated as new lessons come to light.
- This handbook covers the following broad topics:
- Monetary policy frameworks and transitions,
- Forecasting and Policy Analysis Systems (FPAS),
- Effective policy communications
- Operational frameworks
- Foreign exchange operations and intervention strategies
- Financial market development,
- International reserves management,
- Central bank governance and risk management,
- Cash currency management
- Central bank accounting, audit, and finances
Audience (Who for?)
- Targeted at those who provide TA on the identified issues (both IMF and non-IMF personnel).
- Targeted at practitioners in central banks and other relevant institutions.
- Individual chapters of the handbook are published on this website as soon as they become available.
Publication and Access
- Page listing shows: May 2026.
- Related IMF publications and dates visible on the landing page include:
- World Economic Outlook — Global Economy in Crosscurrents of War and Technology — July 8, 2026
- Global Financial Stability Report — Global Financial Markets Confront the War in the Middle East and Amplification Risks — April 14, 2026
- Fiscal Monitor — Fiscal Policy under Pressure: High Debt, Rising Risks — April 15, 2026
- Annual Report of the Executive Board — Getting to Growth in an Age of Uncertainty — September 24, 2025
Monetary and Capital Markets Department: Technical Assistance Handbook — May 2026. International Monetary Fund.
Content in this bundle
- Central Bank Communications
- choice-of-exchange-rate-arrangement
- Liquidity Forecasting—Part II: The Statistical Component
- Reserverequirements
- Transitioningoperationaltargets
- ta-handbook-chapter-foreign-exchange-reference-rates
- Liquidity Forecasting—Part I: The Institutional Arrangements
- Repo Market Development — IMF | MCM Technical Assistance Handbook
- ta-handbook-chapter-2026-jun-foreign-reserves-management-part-i
References
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- https://www.imf.org/en/publications/weo
- Global Economy in Crosscurrents of War and Technology
- https://www.imf.org/en/publications/gfsr
- Global Financial Markets Confront the War in the Middle East and Amplification Risks
- https://www.imf.org/en/publications/fm
- Fiscal Policy under Pressure: High Debt, Rising Risks
- https://www.imf.org/en/publications/reo
- Asia and Pacific
- Europe
- Middle East and Central Asia
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Western Hemisphere
- https://www.imf.org/en/publications/areb
- Getting to Growth in an Age of Uncertainty
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