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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"International Monetary Fund (IMF)"”.
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Catalytic effects of IMF agreements on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in sub-Saharan Africa
It is customary 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 …
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Financial System Development and Economic Development in Malawi
… of financial development, developed by the International Monetary Fund( IMF), which captures depth, access, and efficiency of the financial system. Using yearly data of the period range 1980 to 2019, and employing an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) cointegration technique or bound …
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The impact of capital flows on exchange rates: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
… of reforms in the 1980s, advocated for by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which led to a substantial increase in capital inflows in the region. This study found that a relationship between capital flows and the exchange rate does exist and that capital flows do cause the exchange rate to …
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Reforming Kenya: Explaining the Influence of Internal and External Actors in the Process of Liberalization
… external actors such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in forcing the Moi government to concede to liberalization. To make its argument, the dissertation analyzes the influence of Kenya's colonial history, <em>Harambee</em> (self-help groups), the economic decline of …
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Structural Adjustment and the Dismantling of Egypt's Etatist System
… adjustment policies in May 1991, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank had required in return for foreign debt restructuring. It demonstrates how the Egyptian state was transformed from the etatist system that had characterized it since the 1952 revolution. Using the …
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Compliance with IMF austerity: labor rights, protest, and repression
… explores the domestic 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 …
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The Impact of the International Monetary Fund’s 2016 – 2019 Loan to Egypt on the Country’s Development
<p>The primary objective of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is growth. The organization and its programs can enable the development of nations across the globe and stimulate growth. However, due to weaknesses in its system with conditions that are offered as blanket solutions for unique …
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IMF Conditionality and Political Dissent in Developing Nations
… refers to the program policies required by international institutions, such as 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 …
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Case Study on World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement: European Communities — Measures Affecting Meat and Meatproducts (Hormones), Complaint by the United States
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international organization created to coordinate trading rules among nations. Made up of internationally negotiated trade agreements, the WTO has three main objectives: (1)to assist in the free operation of international trade; (2) to allow continued …
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Investigating the causality between economic growth, trade and income inequality in SADC (1985-2020).
… World Income Inequality Database (SWIID), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB). A multivariate analysis was adopted using Panel Autoregressive Distributive Lags (ARDL) and the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) model. Dumitrescue and Hurlin causality tests were also conducted. …
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The Case of EFA In Sub-Saharan West Africa: How Notions of Human Capital Shape the Discourse of EFA Policymakers and EFA Teachers in Sub-Saharan West Africa
… West Africa. UNESCO, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) all operate as neocolonial powers which continue to exert control over former colonies. These institutions exert control through ideology and financial restraints based in neoliberal policy. Through an examination …
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The impact of reform of the coffee industry in Kenya on small and large farmers.
… the liberalisation program sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Government of Kenya (GOK) has been effective in creating an efficiently functioning market within the coffee sector in particular and the Kenyan macro-economy in general. The research finds that on the whole …
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Trade liberalisation, globalisation and the cocoa industry in Ghana: the case of the smallholder cocoa farmers
… was adjudged the “Star Pupil” of Africa by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank after implementing bold economic reforms in 1983 and the cocoa sector reforms in 1993. But ironically Ghana stood up to the IMF and the Bank by refusing to dismantle its cocoa marketing board …
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Role of Culture in Economic Development: China Study of China and Latin America
… are federal direct investment (FDI), labor, and funding of businesses in each region. In my study, I present the different approaches that are taken by each region to attract FDI. In addition, I will explain how and if informal networking is beneficial to the work force and the funding of …
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Cures To Stalled Development: Causes And Solutions To Economic Crisis In Sub-saharan Africa
… on the combined effects of World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) economic austerity programs, the increased spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and the continuous democratic deficit on the sluggish economic performance within four sub-Saharan African countries – Ghana, Kenya, …
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Essays on the economics of foreign aid in Niger
… moral hazard: the relationship between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the country is analysed through a historical case study. Niger's requests for assistance are accompanied by promises to undertake reforms; however, once aid is disbursed, these undertakings rarely materialize. …
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The role of deposit insurance in the banking system: the case of Lesotho
… systems and has since been endorsed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for countries which are in the process of setting up such a system. Explicit deposit insurance system is preferred over other forms since it creates certainty that bank depositors are guaranteed reimbursement in the …
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From Neoliberalism to Socialism: Reimagining Socialism in Africa
… maldevelopment has continued to defy the usual International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, and foreign aid prescriptions that are, at times, peddled as silver bullets to the African conundrum. Beginning in the late 1970s, loans from the IMF and World Bank required African governments to …
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A qualitative analysis of the international conformity of the proposed amendments to section 23M of the Income Tax Act No. 58 of 1962
… to be at 30% of adjusted earnings, align with international best practice? This dissertation thus, firstly considers the international conformity of the proposed amendments to section 23M of the Act. To establish such conformity, the benchmarks against which the South African amendments are …
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