Rethinking and Reforming the IMF

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What’s the Best Way to Bolster the IMF’s Capacity to Lend to Low-Income Countries?

David Andrews
September 29, 2022
The IMF’s concessional lending to low-income countries through its Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) has risen dramatically since the start of the pandemic and demand for the PRGT resources is expected to remain above pre-pandemic levels for quite some time. But the surge in lending has stra...
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A Quick Rundown on Where We Stand with SDRs
Mark Plant
September 19, 2022
As the UN General Assembly meets in New York and as we get ready to head into the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in a few weeks, I thought it would be a good idea to give a brief recap on where we stand with Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).
A Quick Rundown on Where We Stand with SDRs
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Tracking Recycled SDRs: More on the Hunt for Bigfoot
Mark Plant
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Lucas Sala
August 31, 2022
When the G20 pledges of $100 billion of SDR recycling materialize, there will no doubt be much self-congratulatory celebration. But the celebrations will be meaningless if the SDRs do not make their way to the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) that need them. Will we be able to tell if the SD...
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The Monthly SDR Report, August 2022
Lucas Sala
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Mark Plant
August 31, 2022
In an attempt to make SDR data a bit more decipherable—and because exploring SDRs data can be quite amusing (despite what your friends and family might say)—we have decided to publish our own monthly updates on the SDR holdings data in the form of a blog post. In each post we’ll highlight the mechan...
The Monthly SDR Report, August 2022