. Now in the third year of an IMF-backed economic program, Jamaica is running the most austere budget in the world, with a … primary surplus of 7.5 percent of GDP. After two debt restructurings, both as preconditions to receiving IMF support, Jamaica …

This paper takes a careful look at a recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) Working Paper that claims to find … all large. The IMF paper shows that multilateral liberalization increases consumption perhaps 0.014 percent. This would be … about 43 cents per person per month in the United States. One significant result of the IMF paper is that potential gains of …

This week the Greek government reached agreement with the European authorities and the IMF for 130 billion euros in … lending, as part of a new adjustment package to replace the current IMF program that began in May of 2010. Although the …

, along with the European authorities (including the International Monetary Fund ­ IMF), pursued the correct macroeconomic …

This paper looks at Jamaica’s stalled agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), its economic performance … displace needed investments, preventing long-term growth. The stalling of the IMF agreement has prevented disbursements of … the IMF, the recovery of the Jamaican economy remains muted. …

The IMF makes policy recommendations to European countries through its Article IV consultations and resulting papers …. This paper examines IMF policy recommendations to see whether they have contributed to the ongoing crisis in Europe, and … advice given by the IMF to European Union countries in 67 Article IV agreements for the four years 2008-2011 (IMF 2012c). …

This paper is part of a discussion between CEPR and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) regarding CEPR’s paper, “IMF …-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A Look at Forty-One Borrowing Countries.” An IMF representative presented a response … CEPR paper examined IMF agreements with 41 countries during the current global recession and found that 31 of the 41 …

This paper looks at three countries that have been hard-hit by the world economic recession, and have turned to the IMF … that have resulted from the downturn. Instead, the governments’ responses to the downturn as well as IMF conditions for …

This paper finds that 31 of 41 of countries with current International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreements have been …

percent. The IMF projects another 4 percent drop this year, and predicts that the total loss of output from peak to bottom …