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Collateralized Transactions : Key Considerations for Public Lenders and Borrowers
International Monetary Fund - 2020
In a response to a request from the G20 IFA Working Group, this note provides a framework for public lenders and borrowers to assess collateralized financing practices from a development perspective. The work of the IMF and World Bank suggests that the availability of collateralized financing...
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Assessing Public Sector Borrowing Collateralized on Future Flow Receivables
International Monetary Fund - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409880
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Externalities. Incentives, and Economic Reforms
International Monetary Fund - 1990
The paper emphasizes the role of institutions and incentives in the presence of externalities. An economy with multiple … effective institutions exist for overcoming coordination failure. External financing may weaken incentives for adjustment over … that strengthen incentives to provide effort. Uncertainty regarding future taxes reduces present effort and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396155
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Debt Relief and Adjustment Incentives : A Theoretical Exploration
International Monetary Fund - 1988
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the argument that debt relief would increase the incentive of a debtor country to make an adjustment effort (to invest) and that for this reason creditors may benefit by granting relief. It is shown that there are actually opposing incentive effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396170
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Options for Low Income Countries' Effective and Efficient Use of Tax Incentives for Investment : Tools for the Assessment of Tax Incentives
International Monetary Fund - 2015
This background paper describes five different tools that can be used for the assessment of tax incentives by … framework for assessment. Evaluations of the various costs and benefits of tax incentives are vital for informed decision making … light on the implications of tax parameters - including targeted tax incentives - on investment returns and help understand …
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Jamaica SME Finance
International Monetary Fund - 2015
incentives for lenders to use it and its sustainability. …
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Finance & Development, March 2013
International Monetary Fund - 2013
Two years ago, citizens in the Arab world—fired by their ideals and visions of a better life—ignited a social movement that inspired people around the globe. In Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen—the so-called Arab countries in transition—people embraced change, ushering...
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Finance & Development, December 2012
International Monetary Fund - 2012
By combating malaria with mosquito nets or building schools and providing basic sanitation, philanthropy is helping transform the developing world. Rich donors are devoting fortunes—many of them earned through computer software, entertainment, and venture capitalism— to defeating poverty and...
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Intensified Fund Involvement in Anti-Money Laundering Work and Combating the Financing of Terrorism
International Monetary Fund - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409702
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Changing Patterns in Low-Income Country Financing and Implications for Fund Policies on External Financing and Debt
International Monetary Fund - 2009
Low-income countries (LICs) face significant challenges in meeting their development objectives while maintaining a sustainable debt position. The international community's main answer to this dilemma has been to promote recourse to concessional external resources. The Fund's recommendations to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014410137