TY - BOOK ID - 84546798 TI - Uruguay : Ex Post Assessment of Longer-Term Program Engagement—Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Uruguay. AU - International Monetary Fund. AU - International Monetary Fund PY - 2005 SN - 1462398715 145275442X 1283558297 9786613870742 1451889453 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Banks and Banking KW - Financial Risk Management KW - Foreign Exchange KW - Macroeconomics KW - Public Finance KW - Banks KW - Depository Institutions KW - Micro Finance Institutions KW - Mortgages KW - Debt KW - Debt Management KW - Sovereign Debt KW - Financial Crises KW - Social Security and Public Pensions KW - Banking KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Economic & financial crises & disasters KW - Pensions KW - Currency KW - Foreign exchange KW - Commercial banks KW - State-owned banks KW - Public debt KW - Financial crises KW - Financial institutions KW - Pension spending KW - Expenditure KW - Banks and banking KW - Debts, Public KW - Uruguay UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84546798 AB - This paper presents an Ex Post Assessment of Longer-Term Program Engagement for Uruguay. Uruguay has had a series of Stand-By Arrangements that were treated mostly as precautionary between March 1996 and early 2002. These were viewed as a helpful seal of approval, and a vehicle for intensive IMF monitoring. The authorities undertook significant reforms during this period—notably a pension reform, a reduction in public employment, and a lengthening of wage indexation lags. However, other reforms were either not undertaken or completed with a delay. ER -