To better respond to the unprecedented demand from the membership for financing and crisis support in response to the …

report's key finding that the Fund's response was effective and agile to a crisis like no other, despite the extraordinary …

fiscal space to tackle new spending pressures. Government should focus on those most affected by the crisis and priority … (iii) limits global warming. The current energy crisis reinforces the case for coordination among major emitters to reduce …

This paper outlines the IMF's perspective on the economic impact of corrup-tion and experience in helping countries … design and implement strategies to address it. Corruption has a broader corrosive impact on society. It undermines trust in … influence and political interference. Corruption afflicts countries at all stages of development. Indeed, some developing …

kickbacks these projectspresent. This paper contends that such corruption increases the numberof capital projects undertaken and …

Anecdotal evidence relates corruption with high levels of military spending. This paper tests empirically whether such … the period 1985–98. The association between military spending and corruption is ascertained by using panel regression … techniques. The results suggest that corruption is indeed associated with higher military spending as a share of both GDP and …

better credit ratings, better fiscal discipline, and less corruption, after controlling for other socioeconomic variables …

The past century has been marked by rapid advances in human welfare. People in most parts of the world are healthier … stopped in the1990s, primarily as a result of the AIDS epidemic. This compilation of articles published over the past five …