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      "content": "- External auditors\n- Fund assets\n- Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009\n- Governance\n- Risk management\n- Safeguards assessments policy\n- Transparency\n- Use of Fund resources"
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    "Aim: To establish a course for the Executive Board to consider that would help the safeguards policy continually improve, adapt to changing world conditions, and remain viable and relevant for the next decade.",
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