Deletion of Market sensitive information
Quote:
2007 International Monetary Fund March 2007
IMF Country Report No. 07/115
January 29, 2001 Septmber 24, 201 January 29, 2001
Iraq: Third and Fourth Reviews Under the Stand-By Arrangement, Financing
Assurances Review, and Requests for Extension of the Arrangement and for Waiver of
Nonobservance of a Performance Criterion—Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Press
Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director
for Iraq
In the context of the third and fourth reviews under the Stand-By Arrangement, financing assurances
review, and requests for an extension of the arrangement and for a waiver of nonobservance of a
performance criterion, the following documents have been released and are included in this package:
• the staff report for the Third and Fourth Reviews Under the Stand-By Arrangement,
Financing Assurances Review, and Requests for Extension of the Arrangement and for
Waiver of Nonobservance of a Performance Criterion, prepared by a staff team of the IMF,
following discussions that ended on February 2, 2007, with the officials of Iraq on economic
developments and policies. Based on information available at the time of these discussions,
the staff report was completed on February 23, 2007. The views expressed in the staff report
are those of the staff team and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Executive Board of
the IMF;
• a supplement to the staff report of March 9, 2007, updating information on recent
developments;
• a press release summarizing the views of the Executive Board as expressed during its
March 12, 2007 discussion of the staff report that completed the reviews and requests; and
• a statement by the Executive Director for Iraq.
The documents listed below have been or will be separately released.
Addendum to the Technical Memorandum of Understanding*
Letter of Intent sent to the IMF by the authorities of Iraq*
Supplementary Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies by the
authorities of Iraq*
*Also included in Staff Report
The policy of publication of staff reports and other documents allows for the deletion of market-sensitive
information.
I posted this earlier in the news thread, but thought it might be interesting to get your thoughts on this disclaimer that was on page one of the IMF document from March. A poster on another forum noticed this.
This is the link to the DOCUMENT.
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/...07/cr07115.pdf
Thoughts on what they might be leaving out or deleting before making documents public?
