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Integrating IMF Communications and Operations
International Monetary Fund - 2005
Transparency and communication have become central to the IMF's mission. The main thesis is that an important means of … further strengthening the IMF's external communication in the period ahead will be better coordination and integration of … communication with the IMF's policies and operations, especially in country work and for major policy initiatives and issues …
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The IMF's Communication Strategy
International Monetary Fund - 2007
the IMF's Medium-Term Strategy, further integrate communications with operations, raise the impact of communication tools …
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Review of the IMF's Communications Strategy
International Monetary Fund - 2014
communication in a world where demand for Fund services continues to rise. Second, doing more to assess the impact of IMF …
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Greece; Second Review Under the Stand-By Arrangement: Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Greece.
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2010
A very ambitious fiscal adjustment effort is under way. Fiscal institutional and sectoral reforms have been elaborated for a more durable adjustment. Greece’s determination toward a comprehensive modernization of the health sector, beginning with a far-reaching reform of state enterprises...
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Republic of Serbia; Selected Issues Paper
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This Selected Issues paper on Serbia’s Article IV Consultation reviews the precrisis growth paradigm and its legacy vulnerabilities. The underlying growth model proved vulnerable to shocks, being associated with a high share of nontradable, low domestic savings, and a fragile external...
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Romania; Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2004
This Selected Issues paper for Romania reports that the practice of nonpayment and arrears accumulation has been widespread in Romania. Managers of enterprises that remain in the pipeline for privatization for long periods of time have little incentive to reduce arrears. The state contributed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005591456
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Samoa : Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund - 2010
The impact of the 2009 tsunami on tourism and on the Samoan economy is likely to be substantial. The effectiveness of monetary transmission in Samoa has improved over time; however, it is still below international standards. The adverse impact of the crisis on the functioning of the banking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403713
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Toward Defining and Measuring the Fiscal Impact of Public Enterprises
International Monetary Fund - 1989
In many countries, the activities of public enterprises have an important fiscal impact. While the precise nature of this impact is often obscured, it is important that it be reflected in measures of overall fiscal activity. The paper is intended to raise and clarify some of the issues involved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396090
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Public Sector Efficiency and Fiscal Austerity
International Monetary Fund - 1998
This paper uses a simple model to analyze the forces that determine the size of the public sector and the quality of workers employed in that sector. Workers are heterogeneous, and the public sector chooses an employment strategy that maximizes a social welfare function U(s, Y) that depends on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400822
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The Quality of Governance : Second-Generation Civil Service Reform in Africa
International Monetary Fund - 1998
This paper argues that the development of human capital in the public sector should be an important ingredient in any proposed set of “second-generation” reforms for Africa. In the post-colonial era the quality of governance has seriously declined, and the stock of human capital in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401612