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  International financial institutions and international public goods: operational implications for the World Bank

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2002

  This paper argues that global International Financial Institutions (IFIs) increasingly justify their operations in terms of the provision of International Public Goods (IPGs). This is partly because there appears to be support among the rich countries of the North for expenditures on these IPGs, in contrast to the “aid fatigue” that afflicts the channelling of country specific assistance.
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  Open statement on steps to democratise the World Bank and IMF

  Bretton Woods Project, 2003

  Civil society groups have launched a joint statement for mass sign-ons, as a way of expressing their demands for a fundamental re-examination of the international financial institutions' governance. The statement identifies key problems with World Bank and IMF governance and their demands for minimum steps to improve it.
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  Debt sustainability, Brazil, and the IMF

  Institute for International Economics, USA, 2003

  There has been a high concentration of financial crises in Latin America over the past two years. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have passed through serious debt problems.This paper analyses issues of debt sustainability in emerging economies.
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  World Bank and India's economic development

  Economic and Political Weekly, India, 2003

  In its 50-year partnership with India, the Bank concentrated on the growth objective through subscribing to the trickle down theory. Over the past five years, it has posited its initiatives on a plain of poverty alleviation, to which results are yet to be seen.
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  Political change, economic transition and catalysis of IMF and World Bank models: the case of Malawi

  Economics Working Paper Archive, 2002

  This paper investigates whether or not there is a recognisable pattern of cohesion in economic policy formulation between poor countries (on one hand) and the IMF and World Bank (on the other hand) in the context of change in domestic political dispensation.
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  An identity crises?: testing IMF financial programming

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2002

  The IMF bases its monetary and fiscal policies on a financial programming model which relies on monetary, balance of payments, and fiscal accounting identities.
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  What did structural adjustment adjust?: the association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2002

  This paper analyses some particular characteristics of IMF and World Bank adjustment loans and attempts to explain the relationship between adjustment policies and growth in developing countries. In particular, this study considers the repetition of adjustment loans to the same country not effective at generating the growth necessary to service the debt.
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  IFI’s and IPG’s: Operational Implications for the World Bank

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 2002

  The global International Financial Institutions (IFI’s) increasingly justify their operations in terms of the provision of International Public Goods (IPG’s).
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  An analysis of IMF conditionality

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 2002

  When the IMF was established as an institution for monetary cooperation there was no reference to conditionality.
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  HIPC initiative: the IMF’s response to critics

  International Monetary Fund, 1998

  This document provides a list of IMF’s responses to the most common critics to the HIPCs Initiative.

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