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  Do IMF-supported programs help make fiscal adjustment more durable?

  International Monetary Fund, 2003

  This paper investigates fiscal developments in 112 countries during the 1990s to discover whether IMF-supported programmes help make fiscal adjustment more durable.It finds that, while the overall fiscal balance improved in most of them, the composition of this improvement differed.
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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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  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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  The IMF's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF): a factsheet

  International Monetary Fund, 2002

  This document outlines the IMF's coverage of the implementation of the PRGF, focussing on its areas of expertise.
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  Key features of IMF poverty reduction and growth facility (PRGF) supported programs

  International Monetary Fund, 2000

  This note discusses how features of the PRGF - supported programs may be incorporated into program design, at the early stages of implementing the PRSP approach. It outlines the areas of expected change and aims to use this list to give clarity to expectations, guide the internal work of mission teams and provide a benchmark to review progress within the IMF.

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