Reforming the IMF for the 21st Century
Based on a conference held in September 2005 on the future of the International Monetary Fund, this important new book includes an overview of the challenges facing the IMF today.
Edwin M. Truman
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The Effects of External Macroeconomic Shocks and Uncertainty on Bangladesh's Fiscal Sustainability
Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, Bangladesh has adopted a deficit‐biased fiscal policy, supported by robust GDP growth and relatively low interest rates, capitalizing on its access to concessional financing. However, Bangladesh's graduation to lower‐middle‐income status and its gradual integration into the global economy have exposed the country to external ...
Mohammad Mahabub Alam
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Is there a need for ‘Reforms’ in IMF? [PDF]
Management and Economics Research Journal, 2018 openaire +1 more source
The Governance of the IMF: The Need for Comprehensive Reform
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 This article argues that IMF's current governance arrangements suffer from being non responsive to key stakeholders, lack of accountability, non-representative decision making, lack of transparency, and poorly defined relations with other international organizations. These deficiencies have arisen because the IMF has failed to adapt its decision-making
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Selection Bias and the Output Costs of IMF Programs [PDF]
Questions over the role of the IMF in the economic development and adjustment in developing countries have been the topic of intensive research and debate in recent years.
Michael M. Hutchison
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Estimating the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policies on FDI Inflows Into Australia
Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To what extent FDI policy settings and changes influence FDI inflows is an empirical question for which global answers are scarce. Australia is a pertinent locale to test this question, having a long history of attracting FDI and a policy approach distinct from most developed countries.
Stewart Nixon
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IMF and Economic Growth: The Effects of Programs, Loans, and Compliance with Conditionality [PDF]
In theory, the IMF could influence economic growth via several channels, among them advice to policy makers, money disbursed under its programs, and its conditionality. This paper tries to disentangle those effects empirically.
Dreher, Axel
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Let's lessen conditionality in times of force majeure events. The archaic righteousness of the policy of conditionality of international Institutions amid COVID-19. [PDF]
Res Int Bus Finance, 2021 Qerimi Q, Sergi BS.
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IMF Programs: Who is Chosen and What Are the Effects? [PDF]
IMF lending practices respond to economic conditions but are also sensitive to political-economy variables. Specifically, the sizes and frequencies of loans are influenced by a country's presence at the Fund, as measured by the country's share of quotas ...
Jong-Wha Lee, Robert J. Barro
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From Developmental State to Platform State: The Case of South Korea's AI Policy
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This research note examines South Korea's artificial intelligence (AI) strategy to illustrate the emergence of state platformization—a governance mode where the state acts as a provider of digital infrastructures, data, and standards. Moving beyond traditional developmental models, this study conceptualizes the state as a platform operator ...
Kyungmin Baek
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