01681cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF008359 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451835052 1934-7685 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Sao Tome and Principe : Review of Performance Under a Staff-Monitored Program. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002. 1 online resource (58 pages) IMF Staff Country Reports <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper reviews performance of Sao Tome and Principe under the Staff-Monitored Program (SMP). Sao Tome and Principe's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility-supported program went off track at end-2000 because of fiscal and structural slippages, which were compounded in 2001 by the emergence of oil-sector governance concerns. The authorities requested an SMP for the first half of 2002, but spending overruns reoccurred, and most of the SMP's benchmarks were missed. Program implementation during the first half of 2002 was disappointing, as the key quantitative benchmarks for end-June 2002 were not observed. Mode of access: Internet IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2002/270 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/002/2002/270/002.2002.issue-270-en.xml IMF e-Library