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This paper assesses the degree to which the IMF governance is effective and efficient, and whether it provides sufficient accountability and channels for stakeholders to have their views heard. The focus is on institutional structures as well as on the formal and informal relationships between...
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This report evaluates the role of the IMF in supporting economic reform in Jordan during 1989–2004. The evaluation provides an opportunity to assess typical features of relations between the IMF and its borrowing members, and to put into a specific country context IEO’s earlier findings on...
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Technical assistance is one of the key services provided by the IMF to member countries—particularly lower income countries. It covers a wide set of activities, from technical assistance to support IMF policy advice to longer-term assistance to support countries’ institutional development....
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This evaluation examines factors influencing the effectiveness of the IMF structural conditionality in bringing about … structural reform. It assesses the impact of the streamlining initiative launched in 2000 and of the 2002 Conditionality … Guidelines. These guidelines aimed at reducing the volume and scope of structural conditionality by requiring “parsimony” in the …
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This evaluation report covers such topics as the definition and scope of prolonged use, the evolution of IMF policies on prolonged use, characteristics of prolonged users, the effectiveness and design of prolonged users’ IMF-supported programs, and implications of prolonged use of IMF...
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This evaluation assesses the IMF's response to the global financial and economic crisis, focusing on the period September 2008 through 2013. It assesses the IMF's actions to help contain the crisis and navigate a global recovery, assist individual economies to cope with the impact of the crisis,...
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integration of social protection measures in program design and/or conditionality. This cross-country variation to some degree …
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This evaluation assesses the IMF's work on countries in fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCS), addressing both (i) its engagement through surveillance, lending, and capacity development and (ii) the frameworks and procedures for its engagement. It finds that the IMF has provided unique...
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Structural Conditionality in IMF-Supported Programs. The Update found some progress in streamlining structural conditionality … challenges in applying structural conditionality remain salient. While borrowers appreciated the elimination of structural … performance criteria in 2009 in the context of the switch from an ex post to a review-based structural conditionality framework …
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