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Alleviating Poverty under Structural Adjustment: Proper policies can improve the welfare of the poor over the long run »
Source: Finance & Development, December 1987
Volume/Issue: 24/4
Series: Finance & Development
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 1987
ISBN: 9781616353711
Keywords: importing country, exporters, export restraints, exporting country, voluntary export restraints
This paper discusses the structural adjustment in low-income countries. In the first 20 months of its operations, the IMF's structural adjustment facility (SAF) has provided concessional financial assistance to sup...
Chapter 15 A Market View of the Impact of Sovereign Wealth Funds on Global Financial Markets »
Source: Economics of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Series: Books
Author(s): Udaibir Das , Adnan Mazarei , and Han Hoorn
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 December 2010
ISBN: 9781589069275
Keywords: investors, bonds, investment strategies, principals, financial markets
After having been the center of attention through most of 2007 and the first half of 2008, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) returned to relative obscurity once the commodity price bubble burst in mid-2008. Whil...
CHAPTER 12 Bedfellows, Hostages, or Perfect Strangers? Global Capital Markets and the Catalytic Effect of IMF Crisis Lending »
Source: IMF-Supported Programs : Recent Staff Research
Series: Seminar Volumes
Author(s): Alessandro Rebucci , and Ashoka Mody
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 03 April 2006
ISBN: 9781589063617
Keywords: International Monetary Fund, current account, capital flows, private capital, private capital flows, conditionality
Introduction Ever since Walter Bagehot’s times, it has been recognized that emergency liquidity support, to be effective, must in principle be unlimited. Of course, the precept shoul...
Chapter 10. Financial Globalization: A Reappraisal »
Source: Macrofinancial Linkages : Trends, Crises, and Policies
Series: Books
Author(s): Christopher Crowe , Simon Johnson , Jonathan Ostry , and Jeronimo Zettelmeyer
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 25 August 2010
ISBN: 9781589069398
Keywords: financial integration, financial liberalization, corporate governance, financial globalization, banking crises
M. Ayhan Kose • Eswar Prasad • Kenneth Rogoff • Shang-Jin Wei 1 10.1. Introduction Few issues have stirred su...
Chapter 18 Long-Term Implications of the Global Financial Crisis for Sovereign Wealth Funds »
Source: Economics of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Series: Books
Author(s): Udaibir Das , Adnan Mazarei , and Han Hoorn
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 09 December 2010
ISBN: 9781589069275
Keywords: investors, bonds, investment strategies, principals, financial markets
This crisis will leave an indelible mark on the psyche of every sovereign fund investor. – Senior reserve management official at a major Asian monetar...
Chapter 9. Reaping the Benefits of Financial Globalization »
Source: Macrofinancial Linkages : Trends, Crises, and Policies
Series: Books
Author(s): Christopher Crowe , Simon Johnson , Jonathan Ostry , and Jeronimo Zettelmeyer
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 25 August 2010
ISBN: 9781589069398
Keywords: financial integration, financial liberalization, corporate governance, financial globalization, banking crises
9.1. Introduction Financial globalization—defined as the extent to which countries are linked through cross-border financial holdings, and proxied in this chapter by the sum of count...
Comments: Would Reforming the IMF Stabilize Global Finance? »
Source: Reforming the International Monetary and Financial System
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 18 December 2000
ISBN: 9781557758354
Keywords: moral hazard, capital flows, capital inflows, bonds, bond
Does redesigning the IMF’s mechanisms for providing assistance offer part of the means—possibly even the proverbial “silver bullet”—for ending the roller coaster of booms and crises that are the central conc...
Côte d’Ivoire: Request for Three–Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility »
Source: Côte d'Ivoire : Request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility: Staff Report; Press Release on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Côte d'Ivoire
Volume/Issue: 2009/133
Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 27 April 2009
ISBN: 9781451807929
Keywords: debt, budget, budget execution, interest
Côte d'Ivoire's request for a Three-Year Arrangement Under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility is discussed. Côte d'Ivoire is making progress toward reunification, peace, and elections. Côte d'Ivoire's econom...
A decade of reform and progress: Tanzania looks to further boost growth, intensify poverty reduction efforts »
Source: IMF Survey, Volume 32, Issue 14
Volume/Issue: 32/14
Series: IMF Survey
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 04 August 2003
ISBN: 9781451930405
Keywords: capital account, capital account crises, exchange rate, imf-supported programs, capital outflows
In the late 1990s, a series of capital account crises rocked the global economy. The IMF found itself at the center of this turmoil and criticized as never before. The experience triggered extensive internal and ex...
Financial markets recover: IMF adapts to changing global environment to meet member countries’ needs »
Source: IMF Survey Supplement 1999
Volume/Issue: 28/0
Series: IMF Survey
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 January 1999
ISBN: 9781451951059
Keywords: financial system, member countries, financial markets, world economy, macroeconomic policies
The Web edition of the IMF Survey is updated several times a week, and contains a wealth of articles about topical policy and economic issues in the news. Access the latest IMF research, read interviews, and listen...