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Financing global financial stability and market efficiency
United Nations Development Programme, 2002We refer to a public good when the market is not able to price a specific good because of its externalities. In these terms financial stability is a public good.First of all, this paper defines financial stability at both global and national level. More specifically, the author considers financial stability as stabilisation of the value of financial assets.DocumentNew financial architecture as a global public good
United Nations Development Programme, 2002This paper regards international financial stability and efficiency as very important public good, especially for developing countries.DocumentCauses and consequences of the 1982 World Debt Crisis?
University of Surrey, 1998In order to develop sound analytical understanding of the mechanics of debt accumulation, the paper investigates the evolutionary trend of LDC debt and the consequences for lenders, borrowers and the international financial system.This paper states that the main causes of the debt crisis are:exponential increase in external indebtedness disproportionate to the debt service capacities ofDocumentFair and transparent arbitration processes
Berliner Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft Umwelt und Entwicklung - BLUE 21, 2002The debt crisis of developing countries has not yet been solved by current international debt management as designed by the Paris Club, International Financial Institutions (IFIs) including the IMF and World Bank, the London Club, and the G7.This paper offers a short historical account of such reform proposals since the 1980s and explains how the issue recently reappeared on the international aDocumentAn identity crises?: testing IMF financial programming
Center for Global Development, USA, 2002The IMF bases its monetary and fiscal policies on a financial programming model which relies on monetary, balance of payments, and fiscal accounting identities.DocumentWhat did structural adjustment adjust?: the association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans
Center for Global Development, USA, 2002This 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.DocumentSovereign debt restructuring mechanism: further considerations
International Capital Markets, IMF, 2002This paper from the International Capital Markets, Legal, and Policy Development and Review Departments revisits the rationale for the Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism (SDRM) and distills a number of its key features.It discusses the scope of debt to be covered under the SDRM, with particular focus on the treatment of domestic debt and debt owed to bilateral official creditors.DocumentA guide to gender-sensitive microfinance
Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2002There is ample evidence that microfinance programmes should be highly targeted to the specific context and group of people they are operating with.The FAO Socio-economic and Gender Analysis (SEAGA) Programme has carried out a guide to gender-sensitive microfinance in order to ensure that:socio-economic and gender issues are taken into account when starting or developing a microfinance pDocumentAn analysis of IMF conditionality
Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 2002When the IMF was established as an institution for monetary cooperation there was no reference to conditionality.