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  "title": "Report of the Task Force on the Fund's Technical Assistance Strategy",
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      "content": "- Fund technical assistance (TA) has undergone major changes during the last few years.\n- On the demand side:\n  - Increased interest in a longer-term, implementation-oriented TA.\n  - Increased interest in “second generation” reforms.\n  - Increased interest in new topics.\n- On the supply side:\n  - TA is increasingly financed by donors.\n  - TA is increasingly delivered through experts located in the field.\n- These and other developments call for reassessing the Fund’s TA strategy."
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    "Fund technical assistance (TA) has undergone major changes during the last few years.",
    "On the demand side:",
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    "These and other developments call for reassessing the Fund’s TA strategy.",
    "Publication date: October 19, 2011",
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    "Strategy reassessment should address evolving topics of TA demand and modalities of delivery.",
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