IMF-supported programs : recent staff research /

Research work by the IMF's staff on the effectiveness of the country programs the organization supports, which has long been carried out, has intensified in recent years. IMF analysts have sought to "open up the black box" by more closely examining program design and implementation, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Other Authors: Mody, Ashoka, Rebucci, Alessandro
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, [2006]
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Table of Contents:
  • Overview / Ashoka Mody and Alessandro Rebucci
  • Program objectives and program success / Atish Ghosh, Timothy Lane, Alun Thomas, and Juan Zalduendo
  • IMF programs and growth: is optimism defensible? / Reza Baqir, Rodney Ramcharan, and Ratna Sahay
  • Do IMF-supported programs boost private capital inflows? The role of program size and policy adjustment / Roberto Benelli
  • Macroeconomic adjustment in IMF-supported programs: projections and reality / Ruben Atoyan, Patrick Conway, Marcelo Selowsky, and Tsidi Tsikata
  • Fiscal policy, expenditure composition, and growth in low-income countries / Sanjeev Gupta, Benedict Clements, Emanuele Baldacci, and Carlos Mulas-Granados
  • Efficiency and legitimacy: trade-offs in IMF governance / Carlo Cottarelli
  • IMF conditionality and country ownership of adjustment programs / Mohsin S. Khan and Sunil Sharma
  • Different strokes? Common and uncommon responses to financial crises / James M. Boughton
  • Institutions, program implementation, and macroeconomic performance / Saleh M. Nsouli, Ruben Atoyan, and Alex Mourmouras
  • What determines the implementation of IMF-supported programs? / Anna Ivanova, Wolfgang Mayer, Alex Mourmouras, and George Anayiotos
  • International bailouts, moral hazard, and conditionality / Olivier Jeanne and Jeromin Zettelmeyer
  • Bedfellows, hostages, or perfect strangers? Global capital markets and the catalytic effect of IMF crisis lending / Carlo Cottarelli and Curzio Giannini
  • Keeping capital flowing: the role of the IMF / Michael Bordo, Ashoka Mody, and Nienke Oomes
  • Long-term fiscal developments and IMF conditionality: is there a link? / Aleš Bulíř and Soojin Moon
  • Evaluating IMF-supported programs in the 1990s: the importance of taking explicit account of stoppages / Chuling Chen and Alun Thomas.