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  "title": "Implementation Plan in Response to Board-Endorsed Recommendations Arising from the IEO Evaluation of Structural Conditionality in IMF-Supported Programs",
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      "content": "- Presents an implementation plan for Board-endorsed recommendations arising from the IEO Evaluation of Structural Conditionality in IMF-Supported Programs (“the IEO Report”).\n- Sections in the underlying paper:\n  - Section II: the IEO report’s recommendations and the views of the Executive Board are summarized.\n  - Section III: description of the proposed initiatives which make up this implementation plan.\n  - Section IV: discussion of the projected resource cost associated with this plan.\n- Provides a renewed impetus to the Fund’s efforts to emphasize parsimony and criticality in the setting of structural conditions."
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      "heading": "Key Findings from the IEO Evaluation (as summarized in the paper)",
      "content": "- The IEO report’s key findings echo many aspects of the 2005 conditionality Review.\n- Evidence exists of a substantive shift in the composition of structural conditionality towards Fund core areas.\n- Fund-supported programs cover narrower areas of reform.\n- The IEO report argues that conditionality may have covered areas not critical to the goals of Fund-supported programs, indicating scope to strengthen the parsimony and criticality aspects of the 2002 Conditionality Guidelines (CG)."
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