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The paper surveys the characteristics of explicit systems of deposit insurance in 68 countries. It compares these actual practices with a set of best practices that has been adopted by IMF staff for their advice to member countries. These best practices seek to establish a system of deposit...
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International financial assistance (loans and grants) can potentially raise recipients'' welfare in two ways, by affecting a direct resource transfer and by facilitating efficiency-enhancing reforms. In practice, barriers to reform limit the potential of assistance to deliver these two...
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A low-income country such as Haiti that confronts an environment of diminishing aid inflows must assess tradeoffs among the available policy options: spending cuts, monetization, sales of debt, or use of foreign reserves. To provide the analytical tools for this task, the paper draws from a set...
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This paper assesses whether conditionality in IMF-supported programs has helped offset the potential negative effect of …-income countries-shows that growing use of revenue conditionality by low-income countries partially offsets the depressing effect of … foreign grants on tax revenue, particularly on taxes on goods and services. The impact of conditionality is strong in …
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Does policy conditionality worsen domestic welfare, as governments are forced to attempt unpopular reforms resulting in … damaging protests, or does conditionality help implement reforms that otherwise would have been impossible? This paper analyzes …
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When donors and recipients have different preferences over budgetary allocations, conditionality helps the …, conditionality entails an inefficient allocation of resources. Under such conditions, the optimal amount of conditionality varies … observable, conditionality can be used to prevent recipients with a weak commitment to poverty reduction from obtaining aid funds …
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be subject to conditionality. We show that budget support is preferable to project aid when donors and recipients …
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This paper assesses the macroeconomic implications of scaling up aid for Benin in line with the Gleneagles commitment to double aid to poor countries over the next three years to reach $85 per capita by 2010 and keep it at that level thereafter. The analysis suggests that the additional aid...
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with conditionality and loan size matter …
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