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Showing 1 to 20 of 199 for “"IMF"”.
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Population Synthesis Models for IMF studies
… tools to study the star formation history and IMF of unresolved stellar populations using spectral features. This work presents a new set of PSMs constructed using theoretical isochrones and two state-ofthe-art synthetic spectral libraries. The BT-Settl and Munari libraries were chosen for …
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Case Studies of IMF Driven Auroral Emissions
<p>The topic of solar wind - magnetosphere - ionosphere coupling has become increasingly important in recent years, as it deals with the energy transfer from the Sun to the Earth. The solar wind plasma has direct entry into Earth's ionosphere at the polar cusp. At the cusp Earth's magnetic fields …
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Az IMF és Magyarország kapcsolata a kezdetektől napjainkig
A dolgozatom témája az IMF és Magyarország kapcsolata. A téma érdekességét számomra az aktualitása adja, ugyanis a 2008-ra Magyarországot is elérő gazdasági világválság gyors globális elterjedése ismét előtérbe helyezi a nemzetközi szervezeteket, különösképpen a globális pénzügyi rendszer legfőbb …
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Legitimating the IMF : lessons from the Asian crisis
… out to answer three questions: what caused the IMF's apparent crisis of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Asian crisis, why were the subsequent reforms so limited and what does that apparent paradox tell us about the politics of IMF policy-making? Criticism of the Fund's role in Asia was …
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IMF Conditionality and Political Dissent in Developing Nations
… the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), in order for countries to be eligible to receive access to resources provided by such institutions. In the case of the IMF these resources are available in the form of loans. The proper role of conditionality as a component of the Fund's …
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Essays on IMF-Supported Programs: Analyses of Selected Issues
… Conference, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has continued to play a significant role in the international monetary system. However, its performance and activities has been met with criticism and scrutiny. This dissertation is a collection of four chapters that investigate selected …
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Compliance with IMF austerity: labor rights, protest, and repression
… consequences of International Monetary Fund (IMF) program lending. It argues that when governments implement austerity reforms attached to IMF loans it increases human rights violations and violence in borrower governments. A new measure of IMF compliance is developed and used to explore the …
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Solar wind entry into the magnetosphere under northward IMF conditions
… of northward interplanetary magnetic field (IMF), which is also a necessary condition for the formation of a superdense plasma sheet (SDPS). Since the CDPS is generally absent of a cold O+ component, and the ionospheric outflow is strong only under southward IMF condition, the source of the …
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COMMUNIST STATES IN THE IMF AND IBRD: CONFLICT AND COOPERATION
… requirements stated within their charters, the IMF and the IBRD are prohibited from including non-economic criteria in their decisions to lend to members. Despite this restriction, political criteria such as regime type and foreign policy orientation with respect to the East-West conflict have …
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Challenging Neoliberal Conditionality: Tracing IMF Lending Policies from 2007-2012
… Critics have found little reassurance from the IMF\'s attempts to reform conditionality after 2000. The 1980s marked a time where conditionality on IMF loans required structural adjustment and the imposition of austere fiscal measures. The streamlining initiative in 2000 possessed only slight …
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Integrin Modulating Factor 1 (IMF-1): A lipid that modulates leukocyte integrins
… lipid, termed integrin modulating factor (IMF-1), that may serve to control CR3 avidity. Addition of IMF-1 to cells or to purified CR3 causes enhanced binding of ligand. IMF-1 cannot be extracted from resting PMN but can be extracted from cells within one minute of stimulation with a …
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International Organizations as Information Providers: How Investors and Governments Utilize Optimistic IMF Forecasts
… has examined International Monetary Fund's (IMF or Fund) lending and monitoring activities and has shown that the Fund sometimes deviates from its original mandates and provides preferential treatment to certain countries. The studies suggests that geopolitical and financial interests of the …
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Analyse von Zahnverletzungen durch intermaxilläre Fixierungssysteme mit IMF-Schrauben im Rahmen der Kieferbruchbehandlung
… gehören die selbstbohrenden Schrauben (IMF-Schrauben). Diese könnten – wie jeder chirurgische Eingriff – zu Komplikationen führen. Eine dieser Komplikationen ist die Zahnwurzelverletzung. In dieser retrospektiven Studie werden die Patienten, bei denen im Rahmen der Versorgung von …
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Drivers of Change: Explaining IMF Low Income Country Reform in the Post Washington Consensus
… and historical structural theory, this study of IMF Low Income Country (LIC) policy change from 1996 to 2010 identifies potential causal variables and mechanisms that drive contemporary reform in the institution toward its poorest member states. Patterns uncovered through principal-agent analysis …
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Les facteurs déterminant la performance de remboursement de crédits dans les IMF au Cameroun
… de remboursement des crédits dans les IMF camerounaises. Après l’analyse des données, il en ressort que le taux d’intérêt, la nature de la garantie et l’âge ont un effet sur le remboursement du crédit. Au vu de ces résultats, nous avons formulé des recommandations dont la plus urgente …
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A bottom-up approach to international cooperation: econocrats' role in compliance with IMF agreements
… The case of International Monetary Fund (IMF), however, presents an interesting puzzle. IMF is one of those international institutions that enjoy regular dialogue with bureaucrats employed in relevant domestic institutions of borrowing states like the finance ministry, central bank, …
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Catalytic effects of IMF agreements on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in sub-Saharan Africa
… to postulate that International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreements or arrangements in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will facilitate foreign capital investments or FDI inflows from multinational corporations and or foreign investors. Through empirical observations, and using a two-stage modelling …
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The politics of accountability at the World Bank and IMF: reforming engagements with low-income countries
The accountability relationships that surround the operations of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund are a key feature of global politics. These institutions continue to face criticism from both state and non-state actors over perceived ‘democratic deficit’, and yet the frameworks that …
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National sovereignty and economic globalization: An analysis of the role of the Imf in the changing world
… and the rationale behind the creation of the IMF, its achievements and failures since its founding in 1945; Chapter 5 (Conclusion) discusses recent developments which point at the erosion of state-centered Realism, a theoretical construct, that views states as the dominant and unitary actors …
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