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Global Risks, Vulnerabilities, and Policy Challenges Facing Low-Income Countries

International Monetary Fund - 2012

The rapid recovery in many low-income countries (LICs) following the global crisis has been sustained in 2012. Softening commodity prices have led to moderating inflation pressures in most LICs. However, progress in rebuilding policy buffers has halted over the past two years, despite continued...

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Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust Interest Rate Mechanism : Extension of Temporary Interest Rate Waiver

International Monetary Fund - 2012

In recent months, a number of Directors have expressed support in the Executive Board for a further extension of the temporary exceptional interest waiver on concessional lending. An extension would send a signal of the Fund's continued support for Low-Income Countries at a time when the global...

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Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust : Borrowing Agreement with the National Bank of Belgium

International Monetary Fund - 2012

Effective November 12, 2012, the Fund, as Trustee of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT), entered into a …

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Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust : Review of Interest Rate Structure

International Monetary Fund - 2011

lending facilities. The mechanism links the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) interest rate structure to world …

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Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust : Review of Interest Rate Structure

International Monetary Fund - 2014

the Fund's concessional lending facilities. Based on the application of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT …

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Republic of Mozambique : Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy

International Monetary Fund / African Dept - 2024

The National Development Strategy (NDS) has been revised for the 2025-2044 period to guide the country's new priorities and challenges, in response to changes in the legal, conjunctural and structural context of the economy, planning and international commitments

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Ghana : Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy

International Monetary Fund / African Dept - 2024

This Medium-Term National Development Policy Framework (MTNDPF) 2022-2025 seeks to operationalize Article 36, Clause 1 of Ghana’s 1992 constitution, which enjoins Government to ensure that the national economy is managed efficiently to maximize the welfare of the citizenry. It was prepared...

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Fiscal Policy, Labor Markets and the Poor

International Monetary Fund - 1990

In designing policy measures, including possible social safety nets, targeted to the poor, it is important to fully understand the efficiency implications of these measures. There is abundant macroeconomic literature on their negative effects on the poor’s work effort. The literature, however,...

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Tanzania's Growth Process and Success in Reducing Poverty

Treichel, Volker - 2005

on poverty. It finds that growth has been increasingly driven by higher factor productivity and that a continuation of … since 1995 has resulted in a significant decline of poverty and that prospects are favorable for Tanzania to attain its … objectives for reducing income poverty by 2015 …

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Trade, Growth, and Poverty : A Selective Survey

Berg, Andrew - 2003

This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects … of openness on poverty in two components: the effect of openness on average income growth, and the effect on distribution … of growth and poverty reduction. Trade openness has important positive spillovers on other aspects of reform, however, so …

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