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This paper estimates factors affecting demand for Fund financing by Low-Income Countries (LICs) in response to policy and exogenous shocks. Various economic variables including reserve coverage, current account balance to GDP, real GDP growth, macroeconomic stability, and terms of trade shocks...
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This paper explores the catalytic impact of IMF lending to Low-Income Countries on Official Development Assistance (ODA) during 1990-2019. It disentangles the effect on the amounts of ODA on countries’ participation in IMF programs (“extensive margin”) and the size of the IMF-supported...
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for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue …
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. RELATED LITERATURE -- III. THE MODEL -- IV. CROSS- COUNTRY INCOME DIFFERENCES -- V. POLICY EXPERIMENTS -- VI. THE AID COST OF REFORM -- VII. AID FAILURES -- VIII. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- A. Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Closed Economy -- B. Optimal...
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Mexico's main social support program, Oportunidades, combines two methods to target cash to poor households: an initial self-selection by households who acquire knowledge about the program and apply for benefits, followed by an administrative determination of eligibility based on a means test....
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fluctuations, raising the incidence of poverty. Drawing on micro-level data from South Africa and Tanzania, we examine the … that reducing consumption volatility would have on aggregate poverty. We then discuss coverage of consumption insurance …
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poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress … in reducing poverty in recent decades, but the economic downturn associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to … have temporarily increased poverty and inequality. Second, education and employment status seem to be the main factors …
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Child poverty increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone, the number of children suffering from … poverty in the EU increased by 19 percent, or close to 1 million. Left unaddressed, this would not only affect individuals … poverty and mitigate the long-term impact of poverty. Reducing the number of children affected by poverty can be achieved by …
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The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP$1.9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for …-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality. Extreme poverty was as low as 0.8 percent in the pre-pandemic year 2019, and food …
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We leverage survey data from emerging and developing Asia to highlight different aspects of household vulnerability to income shocks arising from the Covid-19 pandemic: occupation in Cambodia, self-insurance mechanisms in Nepal, and financial leverage in Vietnam. Occupation and ex-ante income...
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