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  "title": "Making Public Debt Public—Ongoing Initiatives and Reform Options—Background Paper",
  "publication": "Policy Papers, October 3, 2023",
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  "summary": "This Background Paper provides technical information to accompany the main paper “Making Public Debt Public: Ongoing Initiatives and Reform Options”.",
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      "heading": "Summary",
      "content": "- This Background Paper provides technical information to accompany the main paper “Making Public Debt Public: Ongoing Initiatives and Reform Options”.\n- It provides further empirical evidence of benefits of public debt transparency.\n- It elaborates on two elements that can be used to enhance public debt transparency:\n  - (i) sound practices in public debt management\n  - (ii) available international data standards and publicly available debt databases."
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      "heading": "Major themes and findings",
      "content": "- Empirical evidence:\n  - The paper presents further empirical evidence of benefits of public debt transparency.\n- Elements to enhance transparency:\n  - Sound practices in public debt management.\n  - Available international data standards and publicly available debt databases."
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      "heading": "Policy relevance and focus areas",
      "content": "- Enhancing public debt transparency through:\n  - Strengthening sound public debt management practice.\n  - Adopting and aligning with public debt data standards.\n  - Improving access to and usability of publicly available debt databases."
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      "content": "- Subject: Economic and financial statistics; External debt; Financial institutions; Government debt management; Government finance statistics; Monetary policy; Political economy; Public debt; Public financial management (PFM); Securities\n- Keywords: B. public debt transparency; data standards initiative; debt transparency; Global; Government debt management; Government finance statistics; IMF team; public debt data standards; public debt databases; public debt management; public debt transparency; Securities; Sound public debt management practice\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/2023/10/03/making-public-debt-public-ongoing-initiatives-and-reform-options-background-paper-539998"
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    "Published: October 3, 2023",
    "Series: Policy Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400257254.007",
    "This Background Paper provides technical information to accompany the main paper “Making Public Debt Public: Ongoing Initiatives and Reform Options”.",
    "It provides further empirical evidence of benefits of public debt transparency.",
    "It elaborates on two elements that can be used to enhance public debt transparency:",
    "Empirical evidence:",
    "Elements to enhance transparency:",
    "Enhancing public debt transparency through:",
    "Subject: Economic and financial statistics; External debt; Financial institutions; Government debt management; Government finance statistics; Monetary policy; Political economy; Public debt; Public financial management (PFM); Securities",
    "Keywords: B. public debt transparency; data standards initiative; debt transparency; Global; Government debt management; Government finance statistics; IMF team; public debt data standards; public debt databases; public debt management; public debt transparency; Securities; Sound public debt management practice",
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