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Erica R Gould - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Money Talks: The International Monetary Fund, Conditionality and Supplementary Financiers
2006Co-Authors: Erica R GouldAbstract:@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii @toc2:1. The Puzzle of International Monetary Fund Conditionality 000 2. The Theory of Supplementary Financier Influence 000 3. A History of International Monetary Fund Conditionality 000 4. Observable Implications and Explanations of Longitudinal Change 000 5. Creditor States as Supplementary Financiers 000 6. Private Financial Institutions as Supplementary Financiers 000 7. Multilateral Organizations as Supplementary Financiers 000 8. Conclusion 000 @toc4:Appendix 1 000 Appendix 2 000 Appendix 3 000 Appendix 4 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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money talks supplementary financiers and International Monetary Fund conditionality
International Organization, 2003Co-Authors: Erica R GouldAbstract:What explains the changes in International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditionality? I argue that IMF conditionality agreements are influenced by supplementary financiers. The IMF regularly relies on external financing to supplement its loans to countries facing payments imbalances. As a result, these supplementary financiers are able to exercise leverage over the IMF and the design of its conditionality programs. I consider the influence of one type of supplementary financier, private financial institutions, on IMF conditionality. “Conclusions are supported by a data set of 249 conditionality arrangements, coded according to their terms, and two case studies.”
Bruce London - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The International Monetary Fund, Structural Adjustment, and Infant Mortality: A Cross-National Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal of Poverty, 2012Co-Authors: Carrie L. Shandra, John M. Shandra, Bruce LondonAbstract:The authors conduct a cross-national analysis that tests the hypothesis that International Monetary Fund structural adjustment adversely affects health in Sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, the authors use two-way fixed effects regression models for 30 nations from 1990 to 2005 to analyze infant mortality. The authors find substantial support for this line of reasoning. Specifically, the authors find that higher levels of International Monetary Fund structural adjustment correspond with higher levels of infant mortality within Sub-Saharan African nations. The results indicate that structural adjustment affects infant mortality indirectly via human immunodeficiency virus prevalence, access to an improved water and sanitation source, female educational attainment, debt service, foreign investment, International trade, and gross national product per capita. The authors conclude by discussing the findings, methodological implications, policy suggestions, and possible directions for future research.
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The International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and structural adjustment: A cross-national analysis of forest loss
Social Science Research, 2011Co-Authors: John M. Shandra, Eric Shircliff, Bruce LondonAbstract:Abstract We test competing hypotheses drawn from neo-liberal economic theory and dependency theory regarding the effects of International Monetary Fund and World Bank structural adjustment on deforestation. In doing so, we analyze cross-national data for a sample of sixty low and middle income nations from 1990 to 2005. We find substantial support for dependency theory that both International Monetary Fund and World Bank structural adjustment lending are associated with higher rates of forest loss. We also find that a number of factors linked to other theoretical perspectives help to explain deforestation. These include non-governmental organizations, gross domestic product per capita, economic growth, primary sector economic activity, democracy, total population growth, non-dependent population growth, rural population growth, urban population growth, tropical climate, and natural forest stocks. We conclude with a discussion of the findings, theoretical implications, methodological implications, policy implications, and possible directions for future research.
John M. Shandra - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the International Monetary Fund structural adjustment and women s health a cross national analysis of maternal mortality in sub saharan africa
Sociological Quarterly, 2014Co-Authors: Lauren Pandolfelli, John M. Shandra, Juhi TyagiAbstract:We conduct a cross-national analysis to test the dependency theory hypothesis that International Monetary Fund structural adjustment adversely impacts maternal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. We u...
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The International Monetary Fund, Structural Adjustment, and Infant Mortality: A Cross-National Analysis of Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal of Poverty, 2012Co-Authors: Carrie L. Shandra, John M. Shandra, Bruce LondonAbstract:The authors conduct a cross-national analysis that tests the hypothesis that International Monetary Fund structural adjustment adversely affects health in Sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so, the authors use two-way fixed effects regression models for 30 nations from 1990 to 2005 to analyze infant mortality. The authors find substantial support for this line of reasoning. Specifically, the authors find that higher levels of International Monetary Fund structural adjustment correspond with higher levels of infant mortality within Sub-Saharan African nations. The results indicate that structural adjustment affects infant mortality indirectly via human immunodeficiency virus prevalence, access to an improved water and sanitation source, female educational attainment, debt service, foreign investment, International trade, and gross national product per capita. The authors conclude by discussing the findings, methodological implications, policy suggestions, and possible directions for future research.
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The International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and structural adjustment: A cross-national analysis of forest loss
Social Science Research, 2011Co-Authors: John M. Shandra, Eric Shircliff, Bruce LondonAbstract:Abstract We test competing hypotheses drawn from neo-liberal economic theory and dependency theory regarding the effects of International Monetary Fund and World Bank structural adjustment on deforestation. In doing so, we analyze cross-national data for a sample of sixty low and middle income nations from 1990 to 2005. We find substantial support for dependency theory that both International Monetary Fund and World Bank structural adjustment lending are associated with higher rates of forest loss. We also find that a number of factors linked to other theoretical perspectives help to explain deforestation. These include non-governmental organizations, gross domestic product per capita, economic growth, primary sector economic activity, democracy, total population growth, non-dependent population growth, rural population growth, urban population growth, tropical climate, and natural forest stocks. We conclude with a discussion of the findings, theoretical implications, methodological implications, policy implications, and possible directions for future research.
Jean Mcmahon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Africa: a "disastrous" record.
International Journal of Health Services, 2005Co-Authors: Demba Moussa Dembele, Jean McmahonAbstract:In their 60th anniversary year, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank will attempt to highlight their “assistance” to Africa. But in reality, since the 1970s, these institutions have gradually become the chief architects of policies that are responsible for the worst inequalities and the explosion of poverty in the world, especially in Africa. When they began to intervene on that continent in the late 1970s and early 1980s, their stated goal was to “accelerate development.” But the actual record is just disastrous, as this article reveals.
Demba Moussa Dembele - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Africa: a "disastrous" record.
International Journal of Health Services, 2005Co-Authors: Demba Moussa Dembele, Jean McmahonAbstract:In their 60th anniversary year, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank will attempt to highlight their “assistance” to Africa. But in reality, since the 1970s, these institutions have gradually become the chief architects of policies that are responsible for the worst inequalities and the explosion of poverty in the world, especially in Africa. When they began to intervene on that continent in the late 1970s and early 1980s, their stated goal was to “accelerate development.” But the actual record is just disastrous, as this article reveals.
