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  "title": "Guidance Note on IMF Engagement on Social Safeguards in Low-Income Countries",
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      "content": "- This note provides operational guidance to staff on how to engage on social safeguard issues with low-income countries in both program and surveillance contexts.\n- The note is not intended as a comprehensive guide, and should be used in conjunction with other operational guidance notes, such as those relating to conditionality and surveillance."
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      "heading": "Operational focus and intended use",
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      "content": "- Not a comprehensive manual: emphasizes use alongside other operational guidance notes.\n- Practical orientation: framed as operational guidance for staff engagement on social safeguards.\n\nInternational Monetary Fund — Guidance Note on IMF Engagement on Social Safeguards in Low-Income Countries (July 11, 2018).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Policy Paper\n  - Policy Paper (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Policy Paper (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/policy-papers/issues/2018/07/11/pp061418guidance-note-on-imf-engagement-on-social-safeguards-in-lics"
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