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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- IMF conditionality: the case of Bangladesh
- Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2011
- This article explores the conditionality of foreign aid and its impact on the national economy of Bangladesh, in response to an agreement between Bangladesh and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) f...
- IMF didn’t change really its approach in low-income countries during recent crisis: proposed alternatives
- A.V. Waeyenberge;H. Bargawi;T. McKinley / European Network on Debt and Development , 2010
- This paper assesses the IMF’s macroeconomic framework and its renewed role in low-income countries (LICs) during and after the recent food, fuel and financial crises. Particularly, the docume...
- Financial Crisis generated significant support: using Special Drawing Rights for public investment to promote developments
- S. Ambrose;B. Muchhala / Third World Network , 2010
- This paper reviews the recent developments in Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), an international reserve asset, created by the IMF. It recommends mobilisation of resources for development finance in l...
- Principles for policymakers to reassure investors and the public after the financial crisis
- International Monetary Fund , 2010
- As the financial crisis winds down, policymakers need to formulate and begin to implement strategies for exiting from crisis related intervention policies. This paper identifies broad principles fo...
- 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
- 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
- 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 (ed);K. Liebig (ed) / 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
- 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...
- The future of the IMF: resources, policies and reform
- M. Weisbrot;J. Cordero;L. Sandoval / Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, 2009
- The London Summit of G-20 leaders recently agreed to increase the resources of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by up to $750 billion, for a total that could reach $1 trill...
- 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 ...
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