Structural conditionality of IMF-supported programs is designed to support structural reforms by countries borrowing … or product market reforms. Hence, tackling deep-rooted structural issues during IMF-supported programs often remained … designing structural reforms, and applies it to case studies …

a methodology that accounts for positive spillovers between the structural reform areas, we estimate that even under the …

Spain's structural reforms, implemented around 2012, have arguably contributed to a faster and stronger economic … recovery. In particular, there is strong evidence that the 2012 labor market reforms increased wage flexibility, which helped … the Spanish economy to regain competitiveness and create jobs. But the impact of these labor reforms on income inequality …

reform process, and partly to the institutional design of the Kazakh treasury. Some design features are common for most well …

growth could be lower for longer, with a setback to development. Post-pandemic reforms thus become even more important …, especially with constrained scope for fiscal and monetary stimuli. Reforms could boost per capita growth by an additional 0 … 37 years to about 22 years. Low-income countries stand to gain the most from reforms. The largest gains come from …

This paper estimates the macroeconomic effects of structural reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) using the … dataset constructed by Alesina and others (2020). We find that large changes in the reform index have positive effects on GDP … and employment that reach 2 percent after 5 years. Furthermore, reforms boost investment, exports, imports, and reduce …