Occasional Papers

Social Issues in IMF-Supported Programs

By Ritha S. Khemani, Sanjeev Gupta, Calvin A McDonald, Louis Dicks-Mireaux, Marijn Verhoeven

January 13, 2000

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Ritha S. Khemani, Sanjeev Gupta, Calvin A McDonald, Louis Dicks-Mireaux, and Marijn Verhoeven. Social Issues in IMF-Supported Programs, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

As part of its mandate, the IMF seeks to create the conditions necessary for sustained high-quality growth, which encompasses a broad range of elements. These include sound macroeconomic policies, growth-enhancing structural reforms, good governance, and such social policies as cost-effective social safety nets and targeted social expenditures. This paper reviews the IMF's policy advice in two key areas of social policy: social safety nets and public spending on education and health care. It was initiated as part of the work by the World Bank and IMF to strengthen the poverty focus of adjustment programs in low-income countries, in particular within the framework of the Initiative for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs).

Subject: Education, Expenditure, Health, Health care, Health care spending, Social assistance spending

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Global, Health care, Health care spending, IMF collaboration, IMF expertise, IMF's social policy advice, Implementation of social policies, OP, Policy, Social assistance spending, Social policy, Sub-Saharan Africa, Targeting of public spending

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    39

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Series:

    Occasional Paper No. 2000/002

  • Stock No:

    S191EA0000000

  • ISBN:

    9781557758736

  • ISSN:

    0251-6365

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