Four Decades of Fund Arrangements: Macroeconomic Stylized Facts Before the Adjustment Programs

July 1, 1995

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Julio A. Santaella Four Decades of Fund Arrangements: Macroeconomic Stylized Facts Before the Adjustment Programs, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1995) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

This paper analyzes the initial conditions before Fund financial arrangements are adopted. Evidence from 324 Fund arrangements in 78 developing countries during 1973-91 indicates that there are important differences in the characteristics between program episodes and a control group. Program episodes exhibit weaker balance of payments, output growth, investment, external conditions and fiscal policy than the control group; they are also characterized by a higher degree of external indebtedness and inflation, and their exchange rates are more depreciated in both nominal and real terms. Only in the case of the growth rates of money and credit do the two groups appear to be statistically similar.

Subject: Central banks, Domestic credit, Exports, External debt, Foreign exchange, International reserves, International trade, Money, Real effective exchange rates

Keywords: Adjustment program, Africa, Domestic credit, Eastern Europe, Exports, FCT UCT, International reserves, Program episode, Real effective exchange rates, Terms of trade, UCT ESAP, UCT Jap, UCT SAP, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

50
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Working Paper No. 1995/074
Stock No:

WPIEA0741995
ISBN:

9781451849530
ISSN:

1018-5941

Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 43, No. 3, September 1996.

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