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Debt Relief for the Poorest : An OED Review of the HIPC Initiative

Gautam, Madhur - 2013

The review by the Operations Evaluation Department finds the Heavily Indebted poor Countries (HIPC) initiative highly relevant in addressing a key obstacle facing many poor countries. If the anticipated debt relief is delivered in full, the initiative will succeed in substantially achieving its...

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Why do countries request assistance from International Monetary Fund? : an empirical analysis

Siddique, Ifrah; Hayat, Muhammad Azmat; Naeem, Muhammad … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 3/98, pp. 1-19

This paper investigates the determinants behind persistent and prolonged stays under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) program and its effectiveness, using panel data consisting of 70 countries that have requested IMF support multiple times, during the period 1980-2018. By employing panel...

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Channelling special drawing rights to multilateral development banks : overcoming remaining legal and political obstacles

Berensmann, Kathrin; Walle, Yabibal; Dufief, Elise; … - German Institute of Development and Sustainability - 2024

advocate on behalf of the AfDB in different fora such as the World Bank and IMF's Spring and Annual Meetings, the G20 and …

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Is it the journey that matters? : a fresh look at the impact of World Bank policy lending

Moll, Peter G.; Smets, Lodewijk - 2018

This paper investigates the impact of World Bank development policy operations on the quality of economic policy during …

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Debt Relief for the Poorest : An Evaluation Update of the HIPC Initiative

Independent Evaluation Group - 2012

This study evaluates progress under the HIPC initiative since the 2003 evaluation of the Independent Evaluation Group. It finds that the Enhanced HIPC initiative (the Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries) cut debt ratios in half for 18 countries, but in eight of these countries, the...

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Investing more in universal social protection : filling the financing gap through domestic resource mobilization and international support and coordination

Bierbaum, Mira; Schmitt, Valérie - 2022

Large and persistent gaps in social protection coverage, comprehensiveness and adequacy are linked to many barriers, including high levels of informality, institutional fragmentation of the social protection system and significant financing gaps for social protection in a context of limited...

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Social policy advice to countries from the International Monetary Fund during the COVID-19 crisis : continuity and change

Razavi, Shahrashoub; Schwarzer, Helmut; Durán … - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused massive disruptions to the global economy and forced policymakers to respond to the newly created challenges. Many policy institutions have therefore had to rethink their established approaches and their usual policy responses.

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Global Monitoring Report 2009 : A Development Emergency

International Monetary Fund - 2012

development crisis. The financial crisis originated in the developed world, but it has spread quickly and inexorably to the … developing world, sparing no country. Increasingly it appears that this will not be a short-lived crisis. The poor countries are … survival. At high- level meetings held in 2008 to mark the MDG halfway point, world leaders expressed grave concern that the …

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Global Monitoring Report 2008 : MDGs and the Environment, Agenda for Inclusive and Sustainable Development

International Monetary Fund - 2012

world is going to respond to the challenge of climate change, building on the foundation laid at the conference in Bali in …

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Global Monitoring Report 2007 : Millennium Development Goals, Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States

World Bank - 2012

Broad-based global economic growth in 2006, and more generally since 2000, provides grounds for optimism about progress in advancing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The 2007 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) takes stock of this progress and assesses the contributions of developing...

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