1. IMF Ignores Proven Alternatives With Recommendations to Honduras
(Matching tags: coup, imf, Honduras, government spending)

On Friday, February 15, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced that it had concluded its most recent Article IV consultation with Honduras. The Fund’s recommendations varied little from those ...

2. CEPR News January 2013
(Matching tags: imf, venezuela, inequality, unemployment, Haiti, Social Security, unions, medicare, minimum wage, Greece, eurozone)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more in January. CEPR on Haiti Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch blogger and CEPR International Research Associate ...

3. The World Bank and IMF’s Repeatedly Over-Optimistic Economic Growth Projections for Haiti
(Matching tags: imf, world bank, GDP)

CEPR’s Arthur Phillips and Stephan Lefebvre have written a nice post analyzing the World Bank and IMF’s repeatedly over-optimistic economic growth projections for Haiti over at our sister-blog, “The Americas ...

4. World Bank and IMF Forecasts Follow Predictable Pattern for Haiti, Venezuela
(Matching tags: imf, world bank, venezuela, Haiti)

... growth. Furthermore, we can see that the projection numbers follow a trend. Both the World Bank and the IMF have been consistently underestimating growth projections in Venezuela.    ...

5. Jamaica and the IMF: How Not to Learn From Past Mistakes
(Matching tags: debt, imf, jamaica)

Once again it seems that Jamaica and the IMF are on the verge of a new lending agreement. And once again, it sounds like more of the same failed policies as before. Last week, after a three-day retreat ...

6. Haiti by the Numbers, Three Years Later
(Matching tags: aid distribution, contractors, shelter, ocha, imf, garment factories, idps, cholera, housing)

En français Number of people killed in the earthquake in 2010: over 217,300 Number of people killed by cholera epidemic caused by U.N. troops since October 19, 2010: over 7,912 [i] Number of ...

7. Austerian Dissent: Jamaica and the IMF
(Matching tags: imf, austerity, jamaica)

Last Friday, the IMF released a Public Information Notice on the Executive Board’s discussion of Jamaica’s Article IV consultation, an annual report in which the IMF assesses member countries’ economic ...

8. CEPR in the News April 2012
(Matching tags: imf, world bank, cholera, economy, housing, Haiti, Social Security, stimulus, austerity, low-wage workers, Latvia)

... Report. CEPR on the IMF and the World Bank It’s spring in Washington, and that means IMF and World Bank meeting time. In conjunction with the Spring Meetings, CEPR Co-director Mark Weisbrot debated ...

9. Troika Greece Program Could Easily be Derailed by Smaller Bond Swap
(Matching tags: imf, europe, Greece)

... Bank, European Commission, and the IMF (the so-called Troika), Greece needs to achieve the near universal participation of private bondholders in a debt-restructuring plan to lower the face-value and interest ...

10. Sachs' Candidacy Sets Stage for Public Debate Over World Bank Reform
(Matching tags: imf, world bank)

... and one of its traditional privileges has been the power to choose the World Bank president. The European members get to choose the Managing Director of the equally undemocratic IMF. Of course it ...