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December 05, 2017
I was recently invited to participate in a panel discussion, titled “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Human Labor” at the 10th edition of World Policy Conference. Preparing for this panel provided me with an opportunity to think more deeply about the ways in which artificial intelligence (A...
January 15, 2010
G-20 heads of state gathering in Washington this upcoming weekend to seek solutions to the global financial crisis should consider ways to strengthen the IMF and the World Bank, the international financial institutions set up after World War II,
to prevent a repeat of the Great Depression. CGD pres...
January 15, 2010
Some critics allege that IMF programs in low-income countries unnecessarily limit health spending, hurting poor people. The IMF responds that its programs are designed to ensure the fiscal stability needed for poverty-reducing growth and that the IMF merely sets targets for overall spending, with co...
January 15, 2010
IMF critics allege that its programs unduly constrain health spending in poor countries. The IMF argues that countries set their own spending priorities while the Fund monitors overall spending and fiscal sustainability. The issue has become more pressing, as countries seek to utilize scaled-up aid,...
October 06, 2008
CGD policy experts are urging the International Monetary Fund to push for the inclusion of emerging market and developing countries in the re-write of bank supervision guidelines and other international financial rules that they say is likely to happen soon as a result of the global financial crisis...
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August 20, 2007
It is hardly a secret that the International Monetary Fund has won few friends among the many organizations and individuals who work in global health. People who have worked to mobilize unprecedented funding for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other health programs in low-income countries argue...
July 23, 2007
Some critics argue that IMF programs in low-income countries unnecessarily limit health spending, hurting poor people. The IMF argues that its programs are designed to ensure the fiscal stability needed for poverty-reducing growth and that the IMF merely sets targets for overall spending, with count...
BRIEFS
July 23, 2007
This brief summarizes the findings of the CGD working group on IMF Programs and Health Spending, convened in fall 2006 to investigate the effect of International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs on health spending in low-income countries. The report offers clear, practical recommendations for improveme...