Policy Papers
2004
March 8, 2004
Safeguards Assessments - Semi-Annual Update
Description: This fourth summary report provides an update on the status of work, the results of assessments completed in the second half of 2003, and the implementation status of recommendations as of December 31, 2003. A comprehensive review of the safeguards policy is scheduled to take place by March 2005.
February 27, 2004
Fund Support for Trade-Related Balance of Payments Adjustments
February 25, 2004
Publication of List of Members with Longer-Term Program Engagements
February 24, 2004
Review of Data Provision to the Fund for Surveillance Purposes
February 24, 2004
The Fund's Support of Low-Income Member Countries - Considerations on Instruments and Financing
February 24, 2004
Strengthening IMF-World Bank Collaboration on Country Programs and Conditionality - Progress Report
February 23, 2004
Integrating the Balance Sheet Approach into Fund Operations
Description: This note provides Directors with a summary of the work that is underway to integrate the balance sheet approach (BSA) into the Fund's operations. During the informal Board discussion last July, Directors concluded that the BSA provides a useful analytical framework to detect currency mismatches and other balance sheet weaknesses of an economy as a whole and of its main sectors, which could help the Fund to strengthen its vulnerability analysis and policy advice. While it was noted that elements of the BSA are already being used as a complement to traditional flow-based analysis, Directors encouraged staff to develop a strategy to further advance the BSA in Fund operations.
February 18, 2004
Review of the Compensatory Financing Facility
February 17, 2004