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Public Information Notice: IMF Board Discusses the Fund's Role in Signaling Assessments of Members' Policies, February 13, 2003
Signaling by the Fund—A Historical Review, July 16, 2004
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Signaling Assessments of Members' Policies
Prepared by the Policy Development and Review Department
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January 8, 2003
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Contents
I. Introduction
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II. Monitoring
for Signaling Purposes
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A.
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Signaling SMPs: Key Concern
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B.
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Monitoring to Signal Assessments of a
Member's Economic Policies: A Modified Approach |
III. Ad
Hoc Signaling Through "Comfort Letters": Experience
and Proposed Policy
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IV. Summary and Issues for Discussion |
Appendices
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Appendix I |
Enhanced Surveillance: Modalities
and Experience |
Appendix
II |
Fund Monitored Programs:
Modalities and Experience |
Appendix III
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Staff Monitored Programs:
Evolution, Modalities and Experience |
Appendix IV |
"Comfort Letters"--Background
and Practices
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Boxes |
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Box A.1 |
Modalities of Staff-Monitored
Programs
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Appendix Tables |
Table A1. |
Signaling SMPs: Reporting
on Initiation and Performance |
Table A2. |
Recent Experience with "Comfort
Letters" |
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