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  "title": "Financial Soundness Indicators: Analytical Aspects and Country Practices",
  "publication": "Occasional Papers, April 8, 2002",
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  "summary": "The financial turmoil of the late 1990s prompted a broad search for tools and techniques for detecting and preventing financial crises, and more recent episodes of instability have high lighted the importance of continuous monitoring of financial systems as a tool for preventing crises.",
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      "heading": "Overview and purpose",
      "content": "- Publication date: April 8, 2002\n- Paper examines the development of measures of financial sector soundness and methods to analyze them in light of financial turmoil of the late 1990s and more recent episodes of instability.\n- Authors propose two sets of financial soundness indicators considered useful for:\n  - periodic monitoring; and\n  - compilation and dissemination efforts by national authorities.\n- Highlights substantial advances in measuring and analyzing financial soundness indicators and specifies areas where more work is needed."
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      "heading": "Key findings",
      "content": "- The late 1990s financial turmoil and subsequent instability episodes underline the importance of continuous monitoring of financial systems as a tool for preventing crises.\n- Two sets of financial soundness indicators are proposed as useful frameworks for monitoring and for national compilation and dissemination.\n- Substantial progress has been made in recent years in the measurement and analysis of financial soundness indicators.\n- Remaining gaps and areas requiring further methodological and data work are identified (areas not enumerated in the source summary)."
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      "heading": "Subjects and topical coverage",
      "content": "- Banking\n- Capital adequacy requirements\n- Credit risk\n- Financial institutions\n- Financial regulation and supervision\n- Financial sector policy and analysis\n- Financial soundness indicators\n- Loans\n- Prices\n- Real estate prices\n- Stress testing\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/occasional-papers/issues/2016/12/30/financial-soundness-indicators-analytical-aspects-and-country-practices-15444"
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    "Published: April 8, 2002",
    "Series: Occasional Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589060869.084",
    "Publication date: April 8, 2002",
    "Paper examines the development of measures of financial sector soundness and methods to analyze them in light of financial turmoil of the late 1990s and more recent episodes of instability.",
    "Authors propose two sets of financial soundness indicators considered useful for:",
    "Highlights substantial advances in measuring and analyzing financial soundness indicators and specifies areas where more work is needed.",
    "The late 1990s financial turmoil and subsequent instability episodes underline the importance of continuous monitoring of financial systems as a tool for preventing crises.",
    "Two sets of financial soundness indicators are proposed as useful frameworks for monitoring and for national compilation and dissemination.",
    "Substantial progress has been made in recent years in the measurement and analysis of financial soundness indicators.",
    "Remaining gaps and areas requiring further methodological and data work are identified (areas not enumerated in the source summary).",
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    "Financial institutions",
    "Financial regulation and supervision",
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    "Prices",
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    "Stress testing"
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