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This paper aims to assess the economic impact of the IMF’s support through its facilities for low-income countries. It relies on two complementary econometric analyses: the first investigates the longer-term impact of IMF engagement—primarily through successive medium-term programs under the...
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This note raises the IMF’s profile on a number of issues related to inequality, unemployment, governance, etc. It builds on earlier empirical work that examined correlations between growth downbreaks/duration of growth spells and a range of macro/policy/institutional factors. This paper is...
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The Kingdom of Lesotho’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper reports that consistent implementation of sound … macroeconomic policies is critical to the attainment of poverty reduction objectives. At the central level, the authorities … capacity at the beginning, made a significant contribution to the preparation of the Poverty Reduction Strategy. …
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This paper uses the Shapley Value decomposition technique to assess the factors behind the rise of inequality in China. It finds that, in many ways, inequality may have been an inevitable by-product of China’s investment and export-led growth model. Between Chinese households, we find that the...
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outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …, dampening the impact of growth on poverty reduction. As a result, relative to other emerging and developing regions and to Asia …
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China's remarkable poverty alleviation is quite uneven across regions in the last quarter of the century. It is … important to explore why China has such huge disparity in poverty distribution in spite of overall dramatic economic growth and … the issue of regional disparities in poverty distribution in China. It finds an increasing concentration of the rural poor …
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This Joint Staff Advisory Note provides IMF staff advice on key priorities for strengthening Bangladesh’s poverty … that the strategic agenda of the National Strategy for Accelerated Poverty Reduction (NSAPR), built on the policy triangle … poverty reduction. …
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poverty in other developing countries can be analysed. It then applies this framework to twelve countries, six in Asia and six …
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