Proposed Amendment of the Extended Fund Facility : Considerations to Extend the Duration of Extended Arrangements on Approval from Three to Four Years.

The EFF Decision currently provides that extended arrangements will be approved for periods not exceeding three years but that, where appropriate, the period of an existing arrangement may be lengthened to a duration of up to four years. This note proposes that the EFF Decision be amended to allow f...

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Körperschaft: International Monetary Fund
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Schriftenreihe:Policy Papers; Policy Paper ; No. 2012/078
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF
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