Technical assistance is among the IMF's most important jobs

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Want to know more about IMF technical assistance? A new illustrated pamphlet, IMF Technical Assistance:

Transferring Knowledge and Best Practice, can help.

Apart from explaining what technical assistance is, how it is delivered, and who pays for it, the 56-page pamphlet provides case studies on capacity building in Africa, the fight against money laundering, helping central banks in Lithuania and Poland, aiding taxation reform, strengthening trade policy, and setting up treasuries in transition economies.

The IMF's work in postconflict situations is highlighted with a first-person account of rebuilding economic institutions in Bosnia and Kosovo, as well as examples from Afghanistan and Timor-Leste. The pamphlet also explains how IMF Institute training programs complement other technical assistance work.

"Providing technical assistance to member countries-particularly developing countries and countries in transition-is among the IMF's most important jobs," says Eduardo Aninat, the IMF Deputy Managing Director who has been responsible for technical assistance.

But it is not...