Download or read book MFD Monetary and Financial Systems Department Technical Assistance to Recent Post Conflict Countries written by International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Financial Systems Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews the recent experience with technical assistance (TA) to postconflict economies in the monetary and financial areas with a view to providing lessons for ongoing and future work.

Download or read book Background Paper for MFD Technical Assistance to Recent Post Conflict Countries written by International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Financial Systems Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides background information to the paper “MFD Technical Assistance to Recent Post-Conflict Countries.” The paper presents case studies on eight countries: Afghanistan, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Serbia, Sierra Leone, and Timor-Leste.

Download or read book Supplement to the Review of Technical Assistance written by IMF Institute and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2004-02-17 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NULL

Download or read book International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2006 written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2006-09-14 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Annual Report 2006 to the Board of Governors reviews the IMF’s activities and policies during the financial year (May 1, 2005, through April 30, 2006). The main sections cover the Fund’s Medium-Term Strategy; country, global, and regional surveillance; strengthening surveillance and crisis prevention; IMF program support and crisis resolution; the Fund’s role in low-income countries; technical assistance and training; financial operations and policies; and governance and management of the IMF. Besides the full financial statements for the year, appendixes cover international reserves, financial operations and transactions, principal policy decisions, press communiqués of advisory committees, Executive Directors and their voting power, and changes in the Executive Board’s membership.

Download or read book Technical Assistance Evaluation Program Findings of Evaluations and Updated Program written by International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2006-12-07 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper is the third to be issued under the Fund's Technical Assistance Evaluation Program, which was launched in FY 2003. It reports on the findings of five completed evaluations, and updates the program of evaluations for FY 2007–2009. The completed evaluations featured in this paper are: (i) an evaluation of technical assistance provided by the Legal Department to Indonesia related to the strengthening of the commercial courts and the implementation of the bankruptcy law; and (ii) evaluations of technical assistance delivered by the Monetary and Financial Systems Department to Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo to strengthen capacity in the financial sector.

Download or read book Evaluation of the Technical Assistance Provided by the International Monetary Fund written by International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technical assistance is one of the key services provided by the IMF to member countries—particularly lower income countries. It covers a wide set of activities, from technical assistance to support IMF policy advice to longer-term assistance to support countries’ institutional development. This evaluation report examines the relevance and effectiveness of IMF technical assistance, and derives recommendations for both IMF management and the Executive Board.

Download or read book Technical Assistance Evaluation Program Findings of Evaluations and Updated Program Evaluation of the Technical Assistance Subaccount for Iraq written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2008-04-04 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Messages • The Iraq Subaccount is a good example of donor coordination as expressed in the Paris Declaration. • Overall, the TAs funded from the Iraq TA Subaccount were successful, relevant, efficient and effective. • Ensuring long-term sustainability requires maintaining an adequate the level of TA activity in the future. • There were instances where more pro-active donor coordination was needed to build synergies to achieve development results. • While the offsite modality was fairly effective and cost efficient and delivered value for money, the limits of this model will be stretched as IMF moves from policy and operational advice and training to greater emphasis on supporting the implementation of policies and procedures. • The Fund’s internal monitoring needs to be strengthened, particularly the TA Information Management System. Reforms in this area are on track, supported by Fund management, and improvements are expected by 1 May 2008. • The Fund’s TA evaluation framework needs to be strengthened by instituting a system of self assessments of all completed TAs and developing guidelines for the ex-post evaluation of TAs. Work in these areas is planned. • The Fund delivered slightly more internally funded TA to Iraq than originally planned.

Download or read book Current Developments in Monetary and Financial Law Vol 3 written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Legal Department and the Institute of the IMF held their eighth biennial seminar for legal advisers of central banks of member countries on May 7-17,2000. The papers presented in this volume are based on presentations made by the seminar participants. The seminar covered a broad range of topics, including activities of the IMF and other international financial institutions, sovereign debt restructuring, the architecture of the international financial system, and money laundering and the financing of terrorism. In addition, participants addressed the role of central banks, payment systems, securities, technology in the financial sector, and monetary arrangements.

Download or read book Bosnia and Herzegovina Assessment of MFd s Technical Assistance Program written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes the findings of an evaluation of the technical assistance delivered by MFD to the CBBH. The assessment was conducted during a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina during the period March 15–17, 2006. It covers the period 1997–2005, although MFD TA started earlier: two brief MFD staff visits took place in 1996 to assist the authorities in preparing legislation to establish a currency board and create a market-based central bank.

Download or read book Liberia written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intermittent civil wars have largely destroyed Liberia's physical and economic structures and the government's capacity to devise and implement policies. Executive Directors expressed concern about the weak revenue performance, lack of progress on fiscal transparency, and accountability. They emphasized the need to accelerate structural reforms, welcomed the National Transitional Government of Liberia’s resumption of regular token monthly payments to the IMF, and suggested that continued cooperation with the IMF and implementation of sound policies will facilitate the development of a Staff-Monitored Program.

Download or read book Annual Report of the Executive Board for the Financial Year Ended April 30 written by International Monetary Fund and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report written by International Monetary Fund and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Iraq written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2004-10-18 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews Iraq’s Request for Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance (EPCA). The authorities’ main goals under the EPCA-supported program are to improve the general welfare of the Iraqi people and address Iraq’s external debt problem. The authorities’ program is to be underpinned by a prudent fiscal policy that aims to limit spending to available government revenues and external resources, the use of the exchange rate to anchor inflation expectations, and the planning and undertaking of key structural reforms to transform Iraq into a market economy.

Download or read book Rethinking Illicit Economies in Opium and Cocaine written by Eric D. U. Gutierrez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the cross-border trade in illicit drug crops in the global south. It exposes an important paradox: despite all the dangers and negative consequences of these criminal networks, in many cases, they also provide marginalised and excluded communities with important private sources of protection, investment, and employment. This book reconstructs and compares socioeconomic contexts, criminal careers, and changes in farmgate prices of illicit coca and opium poppy crops in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Colombia, and Bolivia. It investigates the politics of strange bedfellows; informal bankers-without-suits providing cross-border financial services to the undocumented and the unbanked; the criminals without borders; and the mystery of illicit crop prices. The book challenges commonly held assumptions and casts new light on how relationships of conflict and accommodation are arranged and re-arranged in fluid, ever-changing contexts, producing often paradoxical outcomes. It then suggests policy reforms and alternative approaches to drug policy, development aid, and peacebuilding work. Researchers and students across development, peacebuilding, illicit economies, and conflict studies will find this book an important source of original research and analysis. It will also be useful for politicians, commentators and public officials considering what to do differently in tackling illicit drug economies.

Download or read book Kosovo Assessment of MFd s Technical Assistance Program written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MFD technical assistance to Kosovo has been provided under special circumstances, since it is not a member of the IMF or of the World Bank. As a region within the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia severely affected by the war with Serbia, Kosovo has been administered by the UNMIK on the basis of UN Security Council Decision 1244 of June 10, 1999. After the end of the war, the UNMIK requested technical assistance from the IMF. The IMF's Executive Board approved this request, and MFD began providing TA in late 1999.

Download or read book Haiti written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2005-11-11 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper discusses the Use of IMF Resources in Haiti and Request for Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance (EPCA). The EPCA-supported program was on track until May 2005. All end-December and end-March targets were observed, inflation declined, the exchange rate stabilized, and net international reserves were increased. However, following expansionary fiscal and monetary policies during May–June, most end-June targets were missed. Also, while many structural measures were implemented as envisaged, progress on key structural measures, including the census of public employment and domestic arrears, was delayed.

Download or read book Making Finance Work for Africa written by Patrick Honohan and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on its extensive experience in helping restructure and reform financial systems, the World Bank examines the state of African domestic financial systems in a global comparison. It identifies promising trends as well as pinpointing the major shortcomings that are observed across sub-Saharan Africa. Policy recommendations distinguish between those designed to make finance a more effective driver of economic growth and those designed to give low income, small-scale and other excluded groups better access to financial services.