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Capacity development is one of the IMF's core activities. Its impact is monitored through a Results-Based Management framework. Using for the first time the resulting dataset, the paper investigates how the likelihood of achieving targeted outcomes correlates with macroeconomic conditions and...
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This paper shows that donors that maximize relative aid impact spread their budgets across many recipient countries in a unique Nash equilibrium, explaining aid fragmentation. This equilibrium may be inefficient even without fixed costs, and the inefficiency increases in the equality of donors'...
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This study explores whether IMF-supported programs in low-income countries (LICs) catalyze Official Development Assistance (ODA). Based on a comprehensive set of ODA measures and using Propensity Score Matching approach to address selection bias, we show that programs addressing policy or...
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We study how 22 donors allocate their bilateral aid among 147 recipient countries over the 1970- 2004 period to investigate whether changes in the international aid architecture?at the international and country level?have led to changes in behavior. We find that after the fall of the Berlin...
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This paper studies the spending and absorption of aid in PRGF-supported programs, verifies whether the use aid is programmed to be smoothed over time, and analyzes how considerations about macroeconomic stability influence the programmed use of aid. It finds that PRGF-supported programs allow...
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new trade policy. In assessing these findings, it should be borne in mind that the links between trade reform and poverty …
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Following the adoption by the international community of the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) approach, which … poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) of different policy reforms being considered by the low income countries. This paper … suggested framework could be utilized to investigate the poverty/income distributional implications of introducing a value …
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This article investigates how financial development helps to reduce poverty directly through the McKinnon conduit …
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Poverty alleviation is typically addressed in financial programming through additive programs that target vulnerable … groups but without modifying the underlying stabilization and adjustment targets. Instead, this paper integrates the poverty … alleviation objective into the financial programming framework using a well-known poverty index. In consequence, the assessment of …
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