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The Fund's Lending Framework and Sovereign Debt-Further Considerations
International Monetary Fund - 2015
In discussing the June 2014 paper, Executive Directors broadly supported staff's proposal to introduce more flexibility into the Fund's exceptional access framework to reduce unnecessary costs for the member, its creditors, and the overall system. Directors' views varied on staff's proposal to...
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Issues in Restructuring of Sovereign Domestic Debt
International Monetary Fund - 2021
As emerging and developing economies accumulate more domestic sovereign debt, it is likely to play a larger role in the resolution of future sovereign debt crises. This paper analyzes when and how to restructure sovereign domestic debt in unsustainable debt cases while minimizing economic and...
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From Stimulus to Consolidation : Revenue and Expenditure Policies in Advanced and Emerging Economies
International Monetary Fund - 2010
This review marks the 10th anniversary of the safeguards policy. Introduced in March 2000, the policy's main objective is to mitigate potential risks of misuse of resources, including Fund resources, and misreporting of monetary program data. The policy was last reviewed in 2005, when the...
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Financial Stability Issues in Emerging Market and Developing Economies
Financial Stability Board - 2011
The focus of the paper is on five key financial stability issues in Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs), which have been selected on the basis of their degree of materiality for a reasonably broad range of EMDEs; their implications for regulatory, supervisory or other financial...
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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, 2009 : A Development Emergency
International Monetary Fund - 2009
, prepared jointly by the staff of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, provides a development perspective on the …
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Global monitoring report : 2009: A development emergency
2009
A Development Emergency: the title of this year's Global Monitoring Report, the sixth in an annual series, could not be more apt. The global economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression, is rapidly turning into a human and development crisis. No region is immune. The poor...
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State-Contingent Debt Instruments for Sovereigns : Annexes
International Monetary Fund - 2017
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State-Contingent Debt Instruments for Sovereigns
International Monetary Fund - 2017
Background. The case for sovereign state-contingent debt instruments (SCDIs) as a countercyclical and risk-sharing tool has been around for some time and remains appealing; but take-up has been limited. Earlier staff work had advocated the use of growth-indexed bonds in emerging markets and...
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A Noteon the Public Choice Approach to the Growth in Government Expenditure
International Monetary Fund - 1988
The paper applies an empirical model, based on the economic theory of public choice, to the Group of Seven countries. It is discovered: (a) that deficit financing does appear to contribute to increased real government spending; (b) that the demand for government services as a whole does not...
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