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Coping with the Global Financial Crisis: Challenges Facing Low-Income Countries »
Source: Coping with the Global Financial Crisis : Challenges Facing Low-Income Countries
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Stefania Fabrizio
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 16 March 2010
ISBN: 9781589069299
Keywords: External debt, Commodity prices, Economic growth, Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009, Low-income developing countries, external financing, debt sustainability, debt burden, exchange rate
This forthcoming title in the Departmental Paper Series describes the special challenges facing low-income countries as economic growth contracts by an estimated 1.1 percent globally. Coping with the Crisis: Challe...

The Global Financial Crisis - Explaining Cross-Country Differences in the Output Impact »
Source: The Global Financial Crisis - Explaining Cross-Country Differences in the Output Impact
Volume/Issue: 2009/280
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): R. Gelos , Robert Rennhack , James Walsh , and Pelin Berkmen
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 2009
ISBN: 9781451874259
Keywords: Global crisis, transmission of shocks, cross-country linkages, current account balance, exchange rate, exchange rates,
We provide one of the first attempts at explaining the differences in the crisis impact across developing countries and emerging markets. Using cross-country regressions to explain the factors driving growth foreca...

III Key Features I and 2: Broad Ownership and Participation and Embedding the PRGF in the Overall Strategy for Growth and Poverty Reduction »
Source: Is the PRGF Living Up to Expectations?
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Benedict Clements , Gabriela Inchauste , Nita Thacker , Thomas Dorsey , Shamsuddin Tareq , Emanuele Baldacci , Sanjeev Gupta , and Mark Plant
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 26 September 2002
ISBN: 9781589061125
Keywords: conditionality, pem, poverty reduction, structural conditionality, public spending
The interrelated key features 1 and 2 set out several aspects of the expected relationship between the PRGF-supported program and the PRSP. Specifically. PRGF-supported programs should be consistent with, an...

The Impact of External Indebtednesson Poverty in Low-Income Countries »
Source: The Impact of External Indebtednesson Poverty in Low-Income Countries
Volume/Issue: 2003/61
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Kadima Kalonji , Boileau Loko , Raj Nallari , and Montfort Mlachila
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 March 2003
ISBN: 9781451848199
Keywords: Growth, mortality rate, life expectancy, debt service, infant mortality, International Lending and Debt Problems, Welfare and Poverty, Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics, Growth and Fluctuations,
This paper explores the relationship between external debt and poverty. A number of observers have argued that high external indebtedness is a major cause of poverty. Using the first-differenced general method of m...

Managing Global Growth Risks and Commodity Price Shocks: Vulnerabilities and Policy Challenges for Low-Income Countries »
Source: Managing Global Growth Risks and Commodity Price Shocks : Vulnerabilities and Policy Challenges for Low-Income Countries: Vulnerabilities and Policy Challenges for Low-Income Countries
Series: Departmental Papers / Policy Papers
Author(s): Stefania Fabrizio
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 10 July 2012
ISBN: 9781616353773
Keywords: Development, Economic growth, Commodity prices, External shocks, Economic recovery, Price increases, Low-income developing countries, inflation, monetary policy, exchange rate
As part of its work to help low-income countries manage volatility, the IMF has developed an analytical framework for assessing vulnerabilities and emerging risks that arise from changes in the external environment...

Poverty and Social Impact Analysis in PRGF-Supported Programs »
Source: Poverty and Social Impact Analysis in PRGF-Supported Programs
Volume/Issue: 2002/11
Series: IMF Policy Discussion Papers
Author(s): Gabriela Inchauste
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 December 2002
ISBN: 9781451969856
Keywords: Poverty, Fund-supported adjustment programs, IMF Programs, Social Impact, poverty reduction, impact analysis, social impact analysis, civil service, Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Development, General Welfare,
This paper aims to inform on the status of Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) in IMF-supported programs, detailing the results presented in the recent review of PRGF-supported programs. The review showed tha...