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This paper reviews progress under the Fund's strengthened cooperative strategy on overdue financial obligations. Since the last review, total arrears to the Fund declined by SDR 17.5 million to SDR 1,309.5 million. Payments to the Fund by Sudan and Zimbabwe were in excess of new obligations...
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This paper summarizes the main governance challenges and reform options facing the IMF, drawing together the analysis … and reform proposals in the reports of the Eminent Persons Group (headed by Trevor Manuel), the IEO, and a range of other … selecting key issues and proposals, and in laying out some of the pros and cons. With reform of quotas/voting power on a …
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The recent financial crisis has given renewed urgency to the need for resolution systems for financial institutions, which both safeguard financial stability and limit moral hazard. However, experience demonstrates that these systems will not be effective unless progress is also made in...
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This paper sets out, and seeks to make operational, a core package for the consideration of the Executive Board and, subsequently, the Board of Governors. The reforms would lead to a major overhaul of the Fund's quotas and governance, strengthening the Fund's legitimacy and effectiveness. The...
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positive role that the integrated reform of a country’s security system can play in stabilising fragile, conflict-prone or … sets out the key concepts of security system reform (SSR) and suggests ways to support it in developing countries, taking … regions think about security and provides an account and analysis of individual reform activities currently being undertaken. …
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Widespread agricultural policy reform would undoubtedly improve global economic welfare but would also produce a …
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This report, commissioned by the XIX Government of Portugal, provides an evaluation of the comprehensive labour market reforms undertaken in Portugal over the period 2011-2015. It describes reforms in the areas of employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits, activation, collective...
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Turkey is an important producer and exporter of agricultural commodities on world markets and is estimated to be the … world’s 7th-largest agricultural producer. Although the economic importance of agricultural sector relative to the … broader review of policy developments since the implementation of the Agricultural Reform Implementation Project (ARIP) in …
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