Jordan: Technical Assistance, 2000–2008

Fiscal

• May 2000 Framework for managing nontreasury accounts

• September 2000 Oil pricing mechanism
• January–June 2002 Pension reform
• January–September 2002 GST reform
• November 2002 Macrofiscal capacity and treasury single account
• February, October 2003 Revenue administration reform
• June, August, December 2003 Peripatetic advisor on single treasury account
• February, June, October 2004 Peripatetic advisor on revenue administration reform
• February, May 2004 Public expenditure management
• August 2004–June 2005 Resident expert in macrofiscal management
• February 2005 Distributional effects of replacing oil subsidies
• February–March 2005 Revenue administration reform
• April 2005 Fiscal ROSC
• February, May 2006 Public financial management
• April–August 2006 Expert visits on revenue administration reform
• October–November 2006 Revenue administration inspection visit
• March–April, July, December 2007Revenue administration reform (METAC)

Monetary and Financial

• January–February, April–May 2001, International reserve management
• April–May 2008, Debt management strategy

Statistical

• July 2000 National accounts statistics
• January–February 2002 Report on the Observation of Standards and Codes—Data module

• December 2003 Follow-up on Report on the Observation of Standards and Codes—Data module
• Oct. 2003–Jan. 2004, Mar–May 2004 Balance of payments statistics
• April–May 2004 Government finance statistics
• December 2006 National accounts statistics
• October–November 2006 SDDS Assessment mission
• July 2007 Follow-up on SDDS/Government Finance Statistics

Other

• March 2008 Financial programming workshop

Source: Jordan: 2008 Article IV Consultation - Staff Report

For Discussion: IMF has done a relatively better job at capacity development than other IFIs, especially the peripatetic model has been quiet effective. Discuss.

Related; IMF to Enhance Impact of Its Technical Assistance

In the IMF's FY2008 alone, close to 200 "person-years" (or about 52,000 working days) of assistance was delivered to IMF member countries