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An analysis of competing IMF reform proposals [PDF]

Intereconomics, 2000
In the wake of several major crises, in which it played a highly controversial role, the IMF has recently come under heavy fire from various quarters. A number of proposals for reform have been put forward, of which the report of the Meltzer Commission has attracted particularly widespread attention.
Frenkel, Michael, Menkhoff, Lukas
openaire   +2 more sources

Energy Subsidies in the Arab World [PDF]

, 2012
The policy of maintaining tight control of domestic energy prices has characterized the political and economic environment in most Arab countries, together with many other parts of the world, for decades.
El-Katiri, Laura, Fattouh, Bassam
core  

From Empire to Aid: Analysing Persistence of Colonial Legacies in Foreign Aid to Africa

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreign aid to their former colonies relative to other countries.
Swetha Ramachandran
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of International Monetary Fund under conditions of globalization of economic processes

Vìsnik Žitomirsʹkogo Deržavnogo Tehnologìčnogo Unìversitetu: Ekonomìčnì Nauki, 2016
Globalization in the economy requires proper management of countries' financial resources as the regulation of international financial market is one of the most important tasks of the successful development of the world economy and individual ...
V.V. Ksendzuk
doaj  

Varieties of Democracy Aid Approaches: The Role of Donors' Domestic Ideology

Journal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the end of the Cold War, DAC donors increased their efforts of democracy promotion in developing countries. Among other instruments, DAC donors increasingly use democracy aid to improve democracy abroad. However, DAC donors differ in their allocation and delivery strategy of democracy aid.
Jean‐Baptiste Puginier
wiley   +1 more source

CSR disclosure and investment efficiency in MENA countries: The moderating role of CSR committee

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Corporate social responsibility disclosure (CSRD) is often recognized as a transparency mechanism that allows companies to communicate their commitment to CSR. However, CSRD may also exacerbate agency conflicts. This study addresses these two contrasting perspectives by investigating the impact of CSRD on investment efficiency and exploring ...
Mohamed Malek Belhoula, Imen Khanchel, Naima Lassoued, Rouba Jebri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic crisis and the construction of a neo-liberal regulatory regime in Korea [PDF]

, 2006
A consistent theme of the literature on the ontology of the 1997 South Korean crisis is the key role played by regulatory failures and the growing weakness of the state.
Aggarwal V., Amin A., Applebaum R.P., Asheim B.T., Bonacich E., Clairmonte F., Coe N.M., Dicken P., Dickerson K.G., European Community (EC), Feldman M.P., Gale C., Gereffi G., Germidis D., Gherzi, Held D., Hines T., Hines T., Hirst P., Hoffman K., Holmes J., Hotz-Hart B., Humphrey J., Humphrey J., Ohmae K., Olsen Richard Paul, Piore M.J., Reich R.B., Saxenian A.L., Scott A.J., Scott A.J., Singleton J., Storper M., Storper M., Toyne B., UNESCWA, UNIDO, Wade R., Wrigley N.   +38 more
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ESG Debt Issued by Regional Governments in Spain: Financing Sustainable Development or Usual Public Expenditure?

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable debt bond is an emerging instrument aiming at providing companies and governments with extra resources for financing social and environmental policies and attempting to make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Regional governments in Spain have issued sustainable bonds in recent years to finance different spending ...
Alberto Turnes, Xavier Vence, Angeles Pereira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Sector Returns and Creditor Moral Hazard: Evidence from Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand [PDF]

This paper introduces a framework of investor behavior in which investors form their expectations regarding the credibility of a prospective IMF program in reforming the financial sector characterized by domestic implicit guarantees.
Chenggang Xu, Jian Tong
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Advancing Sustainable Industrialization Under SDG 9: The Role of Financial Globalization and Income Inequality

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how income inequality and financial globalization shape sustainable industrialization across 87 countries over 2000–2022, using the SDG 9 composite index as the outcome and the Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR) to capture heterogeneous effects.
Özge Kozal, Daniel Balsalobre‐Lorente
wiley   +1 more source