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Softening the blow of the pandemic: will the International Monetary Fund and World Bank make things worse? [PDF]

Lancet Glob Health, 2020
Kentikelenis A, Gabor D, Ortiz I, Stubbs T, McKee M, Stuckler D.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Impact of International Monetary Fund programs on child health. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2017
Daoud A, Nosrati E, Reinsberg B, Kentikelenis AE, Stubbs TH, King LP.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Inflation targets, bands, and track records: a dataset of inflation targeting countriesMendeley Data [PDF]

Data in Brief
This paper presents a comprehensive panel dataset of 41 Inflation Targeting (IT) countries from 1990 to 2024 regarding their inflation targets, bands, and track records. First, data on inflation targets and bands are collected through each central bank’s
Zhongxia Zhang
doaj   +2 more sources

Can Fintech Foster Competition in the Banking System in Latin America and the Caribbean?

Latin American Journal of Central Banking, 2022
This paper revisits the competitive environment of the banking system in Latin America and the Caribbean and investigates the early impact of fintech development in the region thus far. Against the backdrop of high net interest margins (NIMs) and limited
Pablo Bejar, Kotaro Ishi, Takuji Komatsuzaki, Ippei Shibata, Jasmin Sin, Suchanan Tambunlertchai   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unimplementable by design? Understanding (non‐)compliance with International Monetary Fund policy conditionality

Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 2021
Why do governments fail to implement policy commitments in contractual agreements with international organizations? While scholars have scrutinized domestic factors as obstacles to compliance, we argue that reform programs may be unimplementable by ...
B. Reinsberg, Thomas Stubbs, Alexander E. Kentikelenis   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The effects of COVID-19 vaccines on economic activity

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2022
This paper empirically examines the economic effects of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts using a cross-country daily database of vaccinations and high-frequency indicators of economic activity—nitrogen dioxide (NO2) emissions, carbon monoxide (CO) emissions ...
Pragyan Deb, Davide Furceri, Daniel Jimenez, Siddharth Kothari, Jonathan D. Ostry, Nour Tawk   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patterns of foreign exchange intervention under inflation targeting

Latin American Journal of Central Banking, 2021
The paper documents the use of foreign exchange intervention (FXI) across countries and monetary regimes, with special attention to its use under inflation targeting (IT).
Gustavo Adler, Kyun Suk Chang, Zijiao Wang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Taxing the People, Not Trade: the International Monetary Fund and the Structure of Taxation in Developing Countries

Studies in comparative international development, 2020
Strengthening fiscal capacity in low- and middle-income countries is essential for achieving sustainable development. The International Monetary Fund—the world’s premier agent of fiscal policy reform—has taken a front-stage role in this process ...
B. Reinsberg, Thomas Stubbs, Alexander E. Kentikelenis   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Belize’s 2016–17 Sovereign Debt Restructuring – Third Time Lucky?

Journal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2020
This paper examines the causes, process, and outcome of Belize’s 2016–17 sovereign debt restructuring – its third episode in last 10 years. As was the case in the earlier two restructurings, in 2006–07 and in 2012–13, the 2016–17 debt restructuring was ...
Tamon Asonuma, Michael G. Papaioannou, Eriko Togo, Bert van Selm   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tax distortions from inflation: What are they? How to deal with them?

Public Sector Economics, 2023
Inflation that is fully anticipated has few real effects in purely private market economies, but this need not be the case in the presence of taxation.
Sebastian Beer, Mark Griffiths, Alexander Klemm   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source