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IMF Lending and Geopolitics [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 There is growing awareness that the distribution of IMF facilities may not be influenced only by the economic needs of the borrowers. This paper focuses on the fact that the IMF may favour geopolitically important countries in the distribution of IMF loans, differentiating between concessional and nonconcessional facilities.
Reynaud, Julien, Vauday, Julien
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The IMF’s Unmet Challenges [PDF]
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016 The International Monetary Fund is a controversial institution whose interventions regularly provoke passionate reactions. We will argue that there is an important role for the IMF in helping to solve information, commitment, and coordination problems with significant implications for the stability of national economies and the international monetary ...
Eichengreen, B, Woods, N
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IMF: Interactive Multimodal Fusion Model for Link Prediction [PDF]
The Web Conference, 2023 Link prediction aims to identify potential missing triples in knowledge graphs. To get better results, some recent studies have introduced multimodal information to link prediction.
Xinhang Li +4 more
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IMF Fossil Fuel Subsidies Data: 2023 Update
IMF Working Papers, 2023 IMF Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to encourage debate. The views expressed in IMF Working Papers are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the IMF ...
S. Black
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IMF-Supported Programs and Sovereign Debt Crises
IMF Economic Review, 2021 This paper studies the role of IMF-supported programs in mitigating the likelihood of subsequent sovereign defaults in borrowing countries. Using a panel of 106 developing countries from 1970 to 2016 and an entropy balancing methodology, we find that IMF-
H. Balima, A. Sy
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Stigma or cushion? IMF programs and sovereign creditworthiness
Journal of Development Economics, 2020 IMF programs are often considered to carry a “stigma” that triggers adverse market reactions. We show that such a negative IMF effect disappears when accounting for endogenous selection into programs. To proxy for a country’s access to financial markets,
Kai Gehring, Valentin F. Lang
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Sharing the Growth Dividend: Analysis of Inequality in Asia
Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2019 This paper focusses on income inequality in Asia, its drivers and policies to combat it. It finds that income inequality has risen in most of Asia, in contrast to many other regions.
Sonali Jain-Chandra +4 more
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OCRA radiometric cloud fractions for GOME-2 on MetOp-A/B [PDF]
Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 2016 This paper describes an approach for cloud parameter retrieval (radiometric cloud-fraction estimation) using the polarization measurements of the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME-2) onboard the MetOp-A/B satellites.
R. Lutz +3 more
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Sustainability and Equity Challenges to Pension Systems: The Case of Lebanon
Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2018 Reform of Lebanon’s pension system is indispensable. The country already faces fiscal sustainability risks, which will be compounded in the future by significantly higher pension- related spending and liabilities, mainly reflecting adverse demographics ...
Mariusz Jarmuzek, Najla Nakhle
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Social Science Research, 2019 This article highlights an important yet insufficiently understood international-level determinant of inequality in the developing world: structural adjustment programs by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Timon Forster +4 more
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