Do loans harm? The Effect of IMF Programs on Inequality [PDF]
IMF programs consist of granting loans, and of conditionality that countries have to follow in order to qualify for them. The paper uses a pooled time-series cross section analysis, covering 98 countries over the period 1970-2000 in order to find out ...
Brigitte Unger, Niels Gilbert
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External Actors, Pressures and Influences: European Integration and the Outside World
Abstract The European Union (EU) increasingly faces external pressures, ranging from Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine to an economically and politically assertive China to deep changes in the transatlantic relationship with the United States.
Christian Freudlsperger, Lucas Schramm
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Commentary on "Social protection and the International Monetary Fund: promise versus performance" by Alexander Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs. [PDF]
Pfeiffer J.
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Political leadership has limited impact on fossil fuel taxes and subsidies. [PDF]
Martinez-Alvarez CB +3 more
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IMF Structural Conditionality: How Much is Too Much? [PDF]
As suggested above, an active debate has long been underway - and has intensified in the wake of the Asian crisis - about the appropriate scope and intrusiveness of IMF policy conditionality.
Morris Goldstein
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Abstract In the context of the European Union's (EU's) geoeconomic shift, the governance of Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) has become a central yet contested pillar of its external trade policy. Accusations of green colonialism highlight the stakes around how partner countries interpret the EU's normative agenda.
Camille Nessel, Zhihang Wu
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How has the global food governance system evolved, and what challenges does it currently pose for food systems transformation? A narrative review and synthesis of the literature. [PDF]
Slater S +4 more
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Contagious convergent cumulative cooperation: the dynamic development of the G20, BRICS and SCO. [PDF]
Kirton J, Larionova M.
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Has IMF Advice Changed After the Crisis? [PDF]
When the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was created, its purpose was to support the new system of fixed exchange rate regimes. With the breakdown of the par-value system, its article on exchange-rate arrangements?Article IV?had to be revised.
Rathin Roy, Raquel Almeida Ramos
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Soft, Technical and Path‐Dependent: Institutionalising Gender Budgeting in the EU Finances
Abstract Gender budgeting has become popular in gender equality policy and public financial management. Although the European Union (EU) is committed to integrating a gender perspective into all its activities, gender equality considerations have not been properly integrated into the EU budget.
Costanza Hermanin, Anna Elomäki
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