International Monetary Fund
Biographic Data
| ID | 3446245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | International Monetary Fund |
| GIVEN NAMES | International Monetary |
| FAMILY NAME | Fund |
| SIGNATURE | FUND I M |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Monetary Fund |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Good Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Governance and corruption issues have taken the center stage in international discussions, especially after the adoption by the IMF in 2018 of a new framework for engagement on governance and corruption. Sound institutions that guarantee integrity in the management of public affairs are critical on the path toward higher and more inclusive growth. Corruption undermines the quality of institutions, weakens the effectiveness of government programs,…
Cambodia
The Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) using the revised joint IMF/WB Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (LIC-DSF) shows that Cambodia remains at low risk of external debt distress. All debt burden indicators are projected to remain under their indicative thresholds under the baseline and the shock scenarios. While the overall risk of debt distress is low, the analysis indicates that debt sustainability is vulnerable to export…
Debt and Entanglements Between the Wars
The seven chapters in this volume tell stories about correlated macroeconomic and political events that occurred in six countries and four Dominions of the British Commonwealth between 1914 and 1940. By a story, I mean a collection of observations ordered in time together with causal interpretations that come from projecting the observations onto a theory. Correlations among our stories arise partly from the international aspects of the events be…
Brazil
Consolidation Episodes in EMs ______ 4. Fiscal Adjustment Reversals _________________________________________________________ 5.The Response of Real Interest Rates to Fiscal Consolidation Episodes in EMs (D>60 percent of GDP) ________________________________________________________________________ 6
Cote d'Ivoire
This paper discusses Côte d’Ivoire’s Second Reviews Under An Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and the Extended Arrangement Under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF). Performance under the EFC/EFF-supported program was strong in the first half of 2017. All performance criteria and indicative targets for end-June 2017 were observed and all structural benchmarks were met. Sound policies implemented by the authorities in the context …
Inequality and Fiscal Policy
Ireland
This paper presents an Ex Post Evaluation of the 2010 Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement with Ireland. The Fund approved in December 2010 an exceptional access EFF arrangement for SDR 19.466 billion (2,321.8 percent of quota) in support of Ireland’s home-grown program and as part of a broader financing package of Ireland and its European partners. The program focused on addressing the Irish banking crisis to break the adverse feedback loop …
Haiti
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers are prepared by member countries in broad consultation with stakeholders and development partners, including the staffs of the World Bank and the IMF.Updated with annual progress reports, they describe the countries macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in support of growth and poverty reduction, as well as associated external financing needs and major sources of financing
Energy Subsidy Reform - Lessons and Implications
Energy Subsidy Reform - Lessons and Implications
Energy subsidies have wide-ranging economic consequences. While aimed at protecting consumers, subsidies aggravate fiscal imbalances, crowd-out priority public spending, and depress private investment, including in the energy sector. Subsidies also distort resource allocation by encouraging excessive energy consumption, artificially promoting capital-intensive industries, reducing incentives for investment in renewable energy, and accelerating th…
Global Monitoring Report
With less than five years left to achieve the MDGs, this year's report looks at the prospects and challenges for reaching the goals. It also examines the great diversity of performance across indicators, countries, and categories of countriesto determine the necessary policies to fill the remaining gaps
République islamique de Mauritanie
Rapport des services du FMI sur les conomies nationales n10/168 Rpublique islamique de Mauritanie : Consultation de 2009 au titre de l'article IV et demande d'un accord triennal au titre de la facilit largie de crdit-rapport des services du FMI; note d'information au public et communiqu de presse sur l'examen par le Conseil d'administration, et dclaration de l'administrateur pour la Rpublique islamique de Mauritanie. Conformment l'article IV des …
Finance and Development, September 2008
The Special Data Dissemination Standard
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched the data standards initiatives to enhance member countries' data transparency and to promote their development of sound statistical systems. The need for data standards was highlighted by the financial crises of the mid-1990s, in which information deficiencies were seen to play a role. Under the data standards initiatives, the IMF established the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) in 1996 to …
Angola
Volume 2007 (2007): Issue 354 (Oct 2007): Angola: 2007 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Supplement and Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Angola" published on 26 Oct 2007 by International Monetary Fund
République de Madagascar
Morocco
Liberalizing Capital Movements
This paper addresses the potential gains and risks of open capital markets by first looking at what classical economic theory suggests aboutthe benefits of capital mobility and then examining the counterargumentsarising from problems of incomplete information and other distortions.It shows that the risks of removing controls on flows of capital acrossnational borders are similar to those associated with removing controlson domestic financial inst…
Morocco
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
World Economic Outlook, April 2005
The World Economic Outlook, published twice a year in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an overview of the world economy; consider issues affecting industrial countries, developing countries, and economies in transition to market; and address topics of pressing current interest. Annexes, boxes, charts, and an extensive statis…
Financial Intelligence Units
Over the past decade and beyond, the need for a modern anti-money-laundering strategy has become widely accepted internationally. Depriving criminal elements of the proceeds of their crimes has increasingly been seen as an important tool to combat drug trafficking and, more recently, as a critical element in fighting organized crime, corruption, and the financing of terrorism, and maintaining the integrity of financial markets. The first few fina…
Japan - Economic and Policy Developments
Japan
7.7 -9.8 -8.5 2.1
Finance and Development, March 1998
Roads to Nowhere
In some countries, corrupt politicians appear to choose investment projects based on the opportunity for bribes and kickbacks these projectspresent. This paper contends that such corruption increases the numberof capital projects undertaken and trends to enlarge their size andcomplexity. The result is that, paradoxically, some public investmentcan end up reducing a country's growth
Cote d'Ivoire
This paper discusses Côte d’Ivoire’s Second Reviews Under An Arrangement Under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) and the Extended Arrangement Under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF). Performance under the EFC/EFF-supported program was strong in the first half of 2017. All performance criteria and indicative targets for end-June 2017 were observed and all structural benchmarks were met. Sound policies implemented by the authorities in the context …
Haiti
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers are prepared by member countries in broad consultation with stakeholders and development partners, including the staffs of the World Bank and the IMF.Updated with annual progress reports, they describe the countries macroeconomic, structural, and social policies in support of growth and poverty reduction, as well as associated external financing needs and major sources of financing
République islamique de Mauritanie
Rapport des services du FMI sur les conomies nationales n10/168 Rpublique islamique de Mauritanie : Consultation de 2009 au titre de l'article IV et demande d'un accord triennal au titre de la facilit largie de crdit-rapport des services du FMI; note d'information au public et communiqu de presse sur l'examen par le Conseil d'administration, et dclaration de l'administrateur pour la Rpublique islamique de Mauritanie. Conformment l'article IV des …
Lesotho
The International Economy
Finance and Development, March 1975
Finance and Development, December 1990
Finance and Development, June 1993
Lesotho
Comoros - Recent Economic Developments
Comoros
Area, population, and GDP per capita Area Population: Total (1994) Growth rate GDP per capita (1994) 1,861 square kilometers 483,995 2.7 percent SDR 299
Growth in East Asia: What We Can and What We Cannot infer
The spectacular growth of many economies in East Asia over the past 30years has impressed the economics profession, which often refers to thesuccess of the so-called Four Tigers of the region (Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan Province of China) as "miraculous." This papercritically reviews the reasons alleged for this extraordinary growth.It weighs arguments in the debate over factor accumulation versustechnical progress, the role of publi…
Policy Challenges in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Why Worry About Corruption?
This pamphlet focuses exclusively on corrupt public practices. It liststhe potential causes and consequences of public corruption and presentsrecent evidence on the extent to which corruption affects investment,economic growth, and government expenditure choices. The evidence presented here suggests that corruption may have considerable adverseeffects on economic growth by reducing private investment and perhaps byworsening the composition of pub…
Finance and Development, March 1998
Roads to Nowhere
In some countries, corrupt politicians appear to choose investment projects based on the opportunity for bribes and kickbacks these projectspresent. This paper contends that such corruption increases the numberof capital projects undertaken and trends to enlarge their size andcomplexity. The result is that, paradoxically, some public investmentcan end up reducing a country's growth
Japan - Economic and Policy Developments
Japan
7.7 -9.8 -8.5 2.1
World Economic Outlook, April 2005
The World Economic Outlook, published twice a year in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, presents IMF staff economists' analyses of global economic developments during the near and medium term. Chapters give an overview of the world economy; consider issues affecting industrial countries, developing countries, and economies in transition to market; and address topics of pressing current interest. Annexes, boxes, charts, and an extensive statis…
Financial Intelligence Units
Over the past decade and beyond, the need for a modern anti-money-laundering strategy has become widely accepted internationally. Depriving criminal elements of the proceeds of their crimes has increasingly been seen as an important tool to combat drug trafficking and, more recently, as a critical element in fighting organized crime, corruption, and the financing of terrorism, and maintaining the integrity of financial markets. The first few fina…
Morocco
Liberalizing Capital Movements
This paper addresses the potential gains and risks of open capital markets by first looking at what classical economic theory suggests aboutthe benefits of capital mobility and then examining the counterargumentsarising from problems of incomplete information and other distortions.It shows that the risks of removing controls on flows of capital acrossnational borders are similar to those associated with removing controlson domestic financial inst…
Morocco
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.
Angola
Volume 2007 (2007): Issue 354 (Oct 2007): Angola: 2007 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Supplement and Statement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Angola" published on 26 Oct 2007 by International Monetary Fund
République de Madagascar
Finance and Development, September 2008
The Special Data Dissemination Standard
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched the data standards initiatives to enhance member countries' data transparency and to promote their development of sound statistical systems. The need for data standards was highlighted by the financial crises of the mid-1990s, in which information deficiencies were seen to play a role. Under the data standards initiatives, the IMF established the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) in 1996 to …
République islamique de Mauritanie
Rapport des services du FMI sur les conomies nationales n10/168 Rpublique islamique de Mauritanie : Consultation de 2009 au titre de l'article IV et demande d'un accord triennal au titre de la facilit largie de crdit-rapport des services du FMI; note d'information au public et communiqu de presse sur l'examen par le Conseil d'administration, et dclaration de l'administrateur pour la Rpublique islamique de Mauritanie. Conformment l'article IV des …
Global Monitoring Report
With less than five years left to achieve the MDGs, this year's report looks at the prospects and challenges for reaching the goals. It also examines the great diversity of performance across indicators, countries, and categories of countriesto determine the necessary policies to fill the remaining gaps
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