Creating Policy Space - Responsive Design and Streamlined Conditionality in Recent Low-Income Country Programs
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Summary:
An analysis of recent programs in low-income countries, covering countries with continuous program engagement with the IMF throughout the period 2007-09, shows that program design has been adapted to provide expanded policy space in response to the food and fuel price shocks of 2007-08 and to the global financial crisis that followed. The analysis also finds that structural conditionality in Fund-supported programs in low-income countries has become more streamlined, with a dominant focus on public sector resource management and accountability.
Series:
Policy Papers
Subject:
Access to Fund general resources Conditionality Economic indicators Economic policy External shocks Financial crisis Fiscal policy Fund facilities Fund role Global Financial Crisis 2008-2009 Low-income developing countries Monetary policy
English
Publication Date:
September 9, 2009
Format:
Paper
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