The Fund's Capacity Development Strategy - Better Policies Through Stronger Institutions - Background Paper

Author: International Monetary Fund

Volume/Issue: Volume 2013 Issue 046

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Labor , Economics- Macroeconomics , PP , funding model , Fund TA , donor financing , TA department , evaluation instrument , strategy paper , TA delivery , TA priority , TA mission , TA-training synergy , resourced TA demand , evaluation program , TA needs , Personal income , Early warning systems , Employment , Information systems and platforms , Global , Sub-Saharan Africa , Middle East and Central Asia , Africa , Middle East

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Summary

This supplement provides background information on various aspects of capacity development (CD) for the main Board paper, The Fund’s Capacity Development Strategy—Better Policies through Stronger Institutions. It is divided into nine notes or sections, each focused on a different topic covered in the main paper. Section A explores the importance of institutions for growth, and the role the Fund can play in building institutions. Section B presents stylized facts about how the landscape for CD has changed since the late 1990s. Section C discusses the difficulties of analyzing CD data because of measurement issues. Section D provides a longer-term perspective on how Fund CD has responded to member needs. Section E contains information on previous efforts to prioritize CD, assesses Regional Strategy Notes (RSNs) and country pages, and suggests ways to strengthen RSNs, including by using the Fund’s surveillance products. Section F compares the technical assistance (TA) funding model proposed in the 2011