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  "title": "Staff Guidance Note on the Fund's Engagement with Small Developing States",
  "publication": "Policy Papers, March 24, 2014",
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      "content": "- Highlights the unique economic characteristics and constraints facing small developing states.\n- Provides operational guidance on Fund engagement with small developing states, including how small country size might influence:\n  - the use of Fund facilities and instruments,\n  - program design,\n  - capacity building activities,\n  - collaboration with other institutions and donors.\n- Draws on the March 2013 Board papers on small states and the associated Executive Board discussion."
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      "content": "- Small country size can materially influence the selection and design of Fund instruments and facilities.\n- Program design for small developing states should account for unique constraints related to size and vulnerability.\n- Capacity building activities require tailoring to the institutional and resource constraints of small developing states.\n- Collaboration with other institutions and donors is emphasized as an operational priority for effective engagement."
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      "content": "- Findings and implications were presented to small states authorities during the 2013 Annual Meetings.\n- Presented in regional IMF conferences with small states in:\n  - the Bahamas (September 2013),\n  - Vanuatu (November 2013)."
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