Review of: Batchelor, Roy (2001), "How Useful are the Forecasts of Intergovernmental Agencies? The Imf And OECD Versus the Consensus"

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Scott Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
The Imf

The role of interstellar filaments in shaping the IMF and regulating star formation

2015 ◽  
Vol 75-76 ◽  
pp. 137-141
Author(s):  
P. André ◽  
V. Könyves ◽  
A. Roy
Keyword(s):  
Star Formation ◽  
The Imf

FALSE ECONOMY :A SURPRISING HISTORY OF THE WORLD BY ALAN BEATTIE

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roli Pradhan
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Imf

The book is a thorough examination of economics from the age of empire to the age of the IMF. Beattie's analysis dazzles with economic particulars. The book discusses Roosvelt's attempt to save capitalism from itself.

IMF Stabilization Programs, Policy Conduct and Macroeconomic Outcomes: A Case Study of Pakistan

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-62
Author(s):  
Nawaz A. Hakro ◽  
Wadho Waqar Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Current Account ◽  
Inflation Rate ◽  
Current Account Balance ◽  
Macroeconomic Policies ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Fiscal Balance ◽  
Macroeconomic Impacts ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Imf

This study is designed to assess the macroeconomic performance of fund-supported programs, and the sequencing and ordering of macroeconomic policies in the context of the Pakistan economy. The generalized evaluation estimator technique has been used to assess the macroeconomic impacts of the IMF supported programs. GDP growth, inflation rate, current account balance, fiscal balance and unemployment are used as the target variables in order to gauge economic performance during the program years. The vector of policy variables (that might have been adopted in the absence of programs) and the vector of foreign exogenous variables are also taken as explanatory variables in the model, so that the individual effect of the IMF supported programs could be assessed. The result suggests that as the IMF prescriptions were applied, the current account balance has worsened, the unemployment rate has significantly increased, and the inflation rate has increased during the years of fund-supported programs. Only the budget balance has shown signs of improvement. Furthermore an inadequate sequencing of reforms has contributed to the further worsening of the economic scenario during the program period.

Dealing with Country Diversity: Challenges for the IMF Credit Union Model

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregor Irwin ◽  
Adrian Penalver ◽  
Chris Salmon ◽  
Ashley Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Credit Union ◽  
Union Model ◽  
The Imf

Distribution of Power within the IMF: When Does Preference Mean Voice?

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fuad T. Aleskerov ◽  
Valery Kalyagin ◽  
Kirill Pogorelskiy
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
The Imf

The IMF, the UK Policy Debate, and Debt and Deficit Discourse

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Clift
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Fiscal Consolidation ◽  
Policy Space ◽  
Fiscal Multipliers ◽  
Scientific Image ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Deep Recession ◽  
The Imf

This chapter charts changing character of the economic ideas informing fiscal policymaking in Britain, and Fund responses to them. Drawing on interviews with the Fund’s UK Missions and UK authorities, it shows how, despite the IMF’s prizing of its non-political, scientific image, its differing views of UK policy space and prioritization became the stuff of a contested politics. The central assumption of the coalition government’s construction of fiscal rectitude was that Britain faced a ‘crisis of debt’, yet the IMF did not share this view. Fund work on fiscal multipliers being higher during recessions, and the adverse effects of fiscal consolidation on growth, all had pointed relevance for UK policy. The coalition government saw little potential for activist fiscal policy in support of growth. In 2013 Blanchard accused the UK authorities of ‘playing with fire’ by pursuing excessively harsh austerity which threatened a prolonged and deep recession.

The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Clift
Keyword(s):  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Full Employment ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Public Power ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Regulatory Interventions ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
The Imf

The IMF uses crisis-defining economic ideas, and crisis legacy-defining ideas, to construct interpretations of economic crises in ways which prioritize particular policy or institutional responses, and rule out or marginalize others. The post-crash IMF enjoyed scope to shift the boundaries of ‘legitimate’ policy, involving heightened appreciation of ‘non-linear’ threats from losses of confidence, prolonged weak demand, and financial system fragilities and contagion. The policy corollaries of this Fund rethink were that economic stability has to be actively pursued through a wider range of policy and regulatory interventions by governments, central banks, the IMF, and other forms of authority and public power. In the context of the Great Recession, the Fund no longer considered it safe to assume an inherent tendency on the part of unfettered market forces in finance and the real economy to deliver the stability and full employment at the heart of its mandate.

Proposal for an IMF Debt Refinancing Subsidiary

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Country ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Acceptable Solution ◽  
Debt Problem ◽  
The Imf

In the chapter, Haq analyses the deepening developing country debt problem of the 1980s and outlines the essential elements for an acceptable solution to the problem. To Haq, IMF seemed to be the most appropriate international intermediary to manage this. Haq goes on to outline the specifics of how the role of the IMF could be modified to find long-term solutions for managing developing-country debt.

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