Policy Papers
2003
March 13, 2003
Draft Compilation Guide on Financial Soundness Indicators
March 7, 2003
Update on Implementation of Action Plans to Strengthen Capacity of HIPCs to Track Poverty-Reducing Public Spending
March 6, 2003
Safeguards Assessments - Semi-Annual Update
March 5, 2003
International Standards - Strengthening Surveillance, Domestic Institutions, and International Markets
February 13, 2003
A Review of the Fund's External Communications Strategy
Description: This paper reviews implementation of the Fund’s external communications strategy and suggests issues that the Board may wish to discuss at its third meeting since 1998 on the subject. The strategy has been shaped by the previous Board discussions and more recent decisions and discussions on transparency, conditionality, PRSP/PRGF, the Independent Evaluation Office, and other issues. This paper represents more of a stocktaking than a fundamental reconsideration of the Fund’s approach to external communications. It examines the progress made in recent years and steps that might be taken with current resources to increase the effectiveness of the strategy.
February 12, 2003
Proposed Features of a Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism
Description: This paper follows up on the Executive Board’s December 2002 discussion of the design of the Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism and seeks to make further progress on the formulation of a concrete proposal for a statutory sovereign debt restructuring mechanism.
February 12, 2003