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Small States Resilience to Natural Disasters and Climate Change : Role for the IMF
International Monetary Fund - 2016
Small developing states are disproportionately vulnerable to natural disasters. On average, the annual cost of disasters for small states is nearly 2 percent of GDP-more than four times that for larger countries. This reflects a higher frequency of disasters, adjusted for land area, as well as...
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Global Monitoring Report 2004 : Policies and Actions for Achieving the Millennium Development Goals and Related Outcomes
International Monetary Fund - 2013
The turn of the century was marked by some significant and promising events for world development. The Millennium …
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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
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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Aid for Trade-Harnessing Globalization for Economic Development
International Monetary Fund - 2007
Aid for trade can support countries trying to further benefit from the expanding global market place by helping to address poorly performing infrastructure and institutions. Needless to say, good policies also matter: trade liberalization, improving incentives for private investment in trade,...
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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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Fiscal policy, stabilization, and growth in developing countries
Bléjer, Mario I. (ed.) - International Monetary Fund - 1989
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Emerging from the Global Crisis : Macroeconomic Challenges Facing Low-Income Countries
International Monetary Fund - 2011
Although the impact of the global crisis has been severe, real per capita GDP growth stayed positive in two-thirds of low-income countries (LICs), unlike in previous global downturns, and in contrast to richer countries. Emerging from the Global Crisis explores how LICS have coped with the...
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Debt Reduction and Economic Activity
International Monetary Fund - 1990
This paper focuses on principles and various aspects of debt reduction and economic activity. The paper analyzes the effect of debt and debt-service reduction on the contractual and market values of a country's debt and also describes the IMF staff's preliminary attempts to describe and quantify...
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