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Showing 1 to 20 of 74 for “"International Monetary Fund."”.
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The International Monetary Fund and The Global South: A Comparative Analysis
… analyze structural adjustment programs that the International Monetary Fund entered into arrangements with through three States: Indonesia, Nigeria, and Venezuela. All three States have fairly large populations and land areas, are major oil exporters, and have experienced good economic growth in …
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The International Monetary Fund and Social Safety Net Construction Failure in Indonesia 1997-1998
Throughout the International Monetary Fund's history it has been criticized for failing to address the negative impact its adjustment programs have on the poor in borrowing countries. This study examines the Fund's declared intention and actions regarding the construction of a social safety net in …
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The Social Impact of the International Monetary Fund: Structural Adjustment Programs in Latin America from 1980-2000
… social development. I try to determine if the funds provided by the IMF are associated with improvements in social development, as measured by the United Nation’s Human Development Index (HDI), health, education, and GDP per capita. Overall, I found that the impact of IMF lending on all of the …
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A Legal analysis of Ghana's securities laws in light of the international organization of securities commission's principles of securities regulation
… to govern the securities industry. In 2011 the International Monetary Fund performed an assessment of Ghana’s financial markets and identified the securities industry legislation as archaic and required amendment. The International Monetary Fund endorsed the IOSCO objectives and principles of …
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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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National sovereignty and economic globalization: An analysis of the role of the Imf in the changing world
… globalization in particular; Chapter 4 takes the International Monetary Fund as a case study and as one of the manifestations of globalization. We describe the principles and the rationale behind the creation of the IMF, its achievements and failures since its founding in 1945; Chapter 5 …
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Challenging Neoliberal Conditionality: Tracing IMF Lending Policies from 2007-2012
The conditionality agreements of the International Monetary Fund have received a significant amount of criticism from the 1980s and 1990s and into the 2000s. Critics have found little reassurance from the IMF\'s attempts to reform conditionality after 2000. The 1980s marked a time where …
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The Role of Mediators in the Relationship Between Export Diversification and Economic Development
… the global economy has become interconnected, international trade has become a common medium for developing and developed countries to interact. However, there is a gap in the scholarly literature when considering the effects of export diversification. The goal of this dissertation is to study …
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Determinants and macro-volatility impact of international capital flows in selected sub-saharan African countries
International capital flows have been an important subject of discussion in the finance and development literature as well as among policymakers. Discussion on international capital flows is inspired by the associated potential benefits which, in turn, have motivated a number of countries in …
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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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Ugandan Drama and the War in the North (1987–2006): Resisting Approaches to Post-Conflict Transition and Humanitarian Intervention
… by Europe, the United States of America, and international agencies: the World Bank, United Nations, and the International Monetary Fund. The study argues that these plays are designed to haunt and provoke any individuals or authorities who may have an insufficient understanding of the two …
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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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The Economic Consequences of Population Growth in Malawi
… approach to cointegration with World Bank and International Monetary Fund data over the period 1960 to 2021 explores whether the increasing population is beneficial or detrimental to Malawi's economic development. The impacts of investment and total factor productivity on output are also …
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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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The politics of accountability at the World Bank and IMF: reforming engagements with low-income countries
… 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 we use to investigate the politics …
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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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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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