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Finance & Development
September 2010 |
Regaining Momentum Progress on the Millennium Development Goals has been slowed by the crisis. The rest of the world has to help.   |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2002
Emanuele Baldacci |
Financial Crises, Poverty, and Income Distribution How do financial crises affect income distribution and the poor? A recent IMF study shows that poverty rises and, in some cases, so does inequality -- underscoring the need for adequate and flexible safety nets, ideally in place before crises strike. |
Finance & Development
September 2008
Masood Ahmed |
The Next Frontier Low-income countries gain ground in a globalized world, but they still face major challenges. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Nora Lustig & Nicholas Stern |
Broadening the Agenda for Poverty Reduction: Opportunity, Empowerment, Security Experience from the 1990s has led to a poverty reduction agenda that, in addition to promoting economic growth, addresses ingrained inequalities, institutional failures, social barriers, and other risks. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2005 |
Sending Money Home: Trends in Migrant Remittances Over the past fifteen years, international migrant remittances have become increasingly prominent -- with $167 billion flowing to developing countries. Survey data show that remittances have reduced the poverty headcount ratio significantly in several low-income countries. |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Ratha et al. |
Remittances in Development Remittances, funds repatriated by migrant workers to family and friends back home, provide the most tangible link between migration and development. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Horton & El-Ganainy |
Back to Basics: What Is Fiscal Policy? What is fiscal policy? And, how can fiscal tools provide a boost to the world economy? |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Edward Gemayel & Samar Maziad |
Delivering on Change The IMF has created a new support framework for the world's low-income countries. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Pisani-Ferry & Santos |
Reshaping the Global Economy The economic and financial crisis marks the end (for now) of a rapid expansion of globalization. |
Finance & Development
June 2009
Marek Belka |
Europe Under Stress The global economic crisis is testing the cohesion of the European Union |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Carlo Cottarelli |
Paying the Piper The role of medium-term fiscal policy in rebounding from the crisis. |
Finance & Development
September 1, 2005
Peter S. Heller |
Making AID Work An unlikely alliance of rock stars, politicians, and grassroots activists has put the issue of combating poverty at the forefront of global policymaking. Scaling up aid flows is just the start of a complex set of decisions and tough choices. |
Finance & Development
March 2010 |
Hunger on the Rise World hunger spiked sharply in 2009, significantly worsening an already disappointing trend in global food security since 1996. |
Finance & Development
March 2011
Nicolas Eyzaguirre |
Sustaining Latin America's Transformation Building on recent successes, Latin America now has a chance to raise its profile in the global marketplace. |
Finance & Development
December 2011
Antoinette Sayeh |
The Quality of Growth The questions that continually nag at me concern the quality of this growth in sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, is it inclusive -- are the poor and the young benefiting -- and is it sustainable? |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2008
Olivier Blanchard |
Cracks in the System The Economic Counsellor and Chief Economist of the IMF discusses what he thinks is needed to repair the damaged global economy. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001
Guy Pfeffermann |
Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: The Role of Private Enterprise The role of private enterprise in development has been neglected by scholars, governments, and aid organizations. This is regrettable: a vibrant private sector generates jobs, raises incomes, and makes better, cheaper goods and services available... |
Finance & Development
September 2011 |
A Bigger Slice of a Growing Pie Developing the financial sector accelerates economic growth and can enhance income equality. |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Mark Horton |
How Grim a Fiscal Future? For most advanced economies, both the near term and the longer term are tight, but there are ways to ease budget pressures |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Baldacci & Gupta |
Fiscal Expansions: What Works There is a firm link between the composition of fiscal policy and the length of a financial crisis. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2008
Charles Collyns |
The Crisis through the Lens of History The current financial crisis is ferocious, but looking at history shows the way to avoid another Great Depression. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Eduardo Aninat |
Surmounting the Challenges of Globalization In recent years, concerns have grown about the negative aspects of globalization and especially about whether the world's poorest will share in its benefits. There is an urgent need for a broad global debate on how these challenges can best be met and on who should play what role... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2005
Saavedra & Arias |
Stuck in a Rut Avenues for combating persistent poverty and inequality in Latin America. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2002
Kevin Watkins |
Making Globalization Work for the Poor In the view of the IMF, the World Bank, and most northern governments, removing barriers to trade is one of the most powerful things that governments can do to give the poor a bigger stake in global prosperity... |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2001
Flemming Larsen |
The IMF's Dialogue with Nongovernmental Organizations The IMF is responding to questions about its role in today's world economy by reaching out to civil society at large and to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in particular... |
Finance & Development
June 2011 |
Rethinking Economics in a Changed World Three Nobel laureates discuss what the global crisis has taught us. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2001 |
Bulletin IMFC Meeting Endorses IMF Crisis Prevention Efforts... IMF in the process of change... The IMF's Role in Poverty Reduction... IMF Acts to Streamline and Focus Conditionality... |
Finance & Development
December 2010 |
Emerging Markets Come of Age These vibrant middle-income countries survived the global recession, but face bumps as they seek to solidify their place in the world economy. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Mahmood Hasan Khan |
Rural Poverty in Developing Countries How does rural poverty develop, what accounts for its persistence, and what specific measures can be taken to eliminate or mitigate it? |
Finance & Development
September 2010 |
Making a Breakthrough To accelerate progress toward the Millennium Development Goals, growth must happen in sectors that directly benefit the poor, such as agriculture. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2001 |
Bulletin Kohler Calls For Coordinated International Response in Wake of September 11 Attacks... IMF Releases Reduced World Economic Outlook Projections... External Financing for IMF Technical Assistance... |
Finance & Development
June 2009
John Lipsky |
Preparing for a Postcrisis World Assessing the IMF's role in the future international financial architecture |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2002
Christian Mulder |
Assessing the Dangers Spotting vulnerability to financial risks is key to preventing crises. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2002
Peter S. Heller & Sanjeev Gupta |
Challenges in Expanding Aid Flows The international community is calling for an increase in foreign development aid to 0.7 percent of industrial country GNP from 0.24 percent of GNP at present. But a large increase in aid flows could pose a number of challenges for the poorest countries. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2006
Burton et al. |
Asia's Winds of Change The path that Asian countries have traveled to growth and prosperity in the past 50 years will remain relevant for the future -- the embrace of openness, the commitment to macroeconomic stability, and the drive to adapt and reform in response to changing circumstances. |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Brad Setser |
The Shape of Things to Come Individual national decisions, not international summits, will remake the global financial system. |
Finance & Development
March 2011
Alicia Barcena |
Spreading the Wealth Poverty and inequality have declined in Latin America in recent years, but there is a lot more to do. |
Finance & Development
September 2008 |
Dialogue Box F&D asked a number of opinion leaders around the world to answer the question, What's the single thing most likely to double living standards in poor countries over the next decade? |
BusinessWeek
October 1, 2009
Maria Bartiromo |
How Brazil's Lula Sees the Emerging World Order A conversation with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. |
Finance & Development
June 2010
Linda Yueh |
A Stronger China China can emerge from the crisis stronger if it increases domestic demand and promotes global integration. |
Finance & Development
December 2011
Nozaki et al. |
Are the Critics Right? A new study finds that public education and health spending get a boost when low-income countries receive IMF financial support |
Finance & Development
March 2009 |
In Brief IMF seeks to double resources... Vulnerability fund... Events in 2009... |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2006
Ambroise Fayolle |
Out of the Trap Given that fragile states face urgent and specific needs, the framework created by donors to support them is both too slow and not comprehensive enough. Closer coordination between all actors, including the IMF, should be a priority in fragile states. |
Finance & Development
March 1, 2000
Nora Lustig & Omar Arias |
Poverty Reduction Although Latin America and the Caribbean reduced the incidence of poverty during the 1990s, population increases and the greater income inequalities that had developed during the 1980s stymied the region's efforts to reduce the number of poor people. How can its policymakers fight poverty most effectively and better protect the poor during economic crises? |
Finance & Development
March 2010
Berkmen et al. |
Differential Impact There's a reason why some countries were hit harder than others during the global crisis. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2006
Sundberg & Gelb |
Making Aid Work Aid in the past was often guided by geopolitical considerations linked to the interests of donor countries rather than by development objectives. But the end of the cold war and progress toward a new aid architecture should make aid more effective in Africa. |
Finance & Development
December 1, 2000
Masood Ahmed & Hugh Bredenkamp |
Supporting Poverty Reduction in Low-Income Developing Countries: The International Community's Response Despite developing countries' improved economic growth rates during the 1990s, poverty has remained firmly entrenched. How can developing countries, international financial institutions, and developed countries work together more effectively to reduce the incidence of poverty? |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2007
Gupta et al. |
Making Remittances Work for Africa If handled well, migrant transfers in sub-Saharan Africa can reduce poverty and connect small savers to the formal financial sector. |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Jeremy Clift |
From the Editor: The Promise of the MDGs THE Millennium Development Goals are eight international development targets that all 192 United Nations member states and a large number of international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015. |
Finance & Development
September 2009 |
Faces of the Crisis - One Crisis, Six Lives The stories of six people, told here in their own voices, illustrate better than any economic analysis just how integrated the world is today, and how intertwined our fates have become as a consequence. |
