International Finance Institutions
- IMF's facilities for low-income countries: a review
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This paper assesses the adequacy of the Fund’s toolkit for low-income countries, with a view to ensuring that it keeps pace with a changing world, particularly as global economic conditions deteriorate and put pressure on countries. To preserve gains and meet future needs the Fund’s concessional toolkit must be improved.
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- How to conduct quality impact evaluations under financial, time and data constraints
- ( M. Bamberger / Independent Evaluation Group Knowledge Programs and Evaluation Capacity Development (IEGKE), World Bank , 2006)
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Evaluation is an important accountability tool. It helps in learning about what works well, what does not and reasons why. However, evaluations can be expensive to conduct. Project and programme ma...
- Policy changes to ensure that the world that emerges from global crisis is better than the one that caused it
- ( International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity , 2009)
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The global crises grew out of an economic model that is fuelled by risk-taking and speculation, with lopsided standards that cannot effectively supervise such behaviour. The present model of growth...
- Suggestions for improved regional development banks
- ( P. Wolff;K. Liebig / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI) , 2008)
- The development finance system is becoming increasingly complex. New actors and instruments are being created with enormous speed and ingenuity. Yet the multilateral development banks still account fo...
- Analysing the impact of World Bank lending
- ( World Bank , 2008)
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How can the environmental impact of World Bank lending be calculated? The Operations Policy on Development Policy Lending (DPL), requires that the World Bank systematically analyses whether specifi...
Global financial systems show early signs of stabilisation but more action needed says IMF
- ( World Economic and Financial Surveys Series , 2009)
- The global financial system remains under severe stress. This Global Financial Stability report from the IMF comes at a time when the crisis is spreading to households and so individuals all over the ...
- The first stage of the IMF review of financing for low-income countries
- ( International Monetary Fund , 2009)
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The review of the Internation Monetary Fund’s facilities and financing framework for low-income countries (LICs) is part of a broader review of the Fund’s facilities. This paper assesse...
- Building up cushions to avoid draining liquidity during periods of crisis
- ( United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development , 2009)
- The current global financial crisis arose amidst the failure of the international community to give the globalised economy credible global rules. This is true especially with regard to international f...
- DFID outlines development challenges and responses for 2009
- ( Department for International Development, UK , 2009)
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This background paper for the DFID annual conference "Securing our Common Future: a conference on the future of international development" (9-10 March 2009, London) reaff...
- Reviewing past World Bank responses to crises
- ( Adapting to Change [The World Bank Group] , 2008)
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The ongoing financial crisis in the United States and other developed countries is spreading to the developing world, middle- and low-income countries alike, threatening years of progress in povert...
- How more effective global governance can be promoted in the financial sector
- ( R. Agarwala / Research and Information System for the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries, India , 2008)
- The current global financial crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression of the 1930s, may turn out to be an epoch-making event in evolution of global governance. With massive globalisation in ...
