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IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A Look at Forty-One Borrowing Countries
October 2009, Mark Weisbrot, Rebecca Ray, Jake Johnston, Jose Antonio Cordero and Juan Antonio Montecino

The IMF’s Stand-by Arrangements and the Economic Downturn in Eastern Europe: The Cases of Hungary, Latvia, and Ukraine
September 2009, Jose Antonio Cordero

The Millennium Challenge Corporation and Economic Sanctions: A Comparison of Honduras With Other Countries

August 2009, Alexander Main and Jake Johnston

An International Comparison of Small Business Employment
August 2009, John Schmitt and Nathan Lane

Costa Rica During the Global Recession: Fiscal Stimulus with Tight Monetary Policy
July 2009, Jose Antonio Cordero

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Op-Eds & Columns

Honduran Dictatorship Is A Threat to Democracy In the Hemisphere
Mark Weisbrot
Sacramento Bee, November 19, 2009

U.S. Must Solve Its Own Economic Problems
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, November 12, 2009

President Obama’s Credibility on the Line in Honduras
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, November 4, 2009

Ecuador, Bolivia Show that Even Small Developing Countries Can Pursue Independent Economic Policies, Stand Up for Their Rights, and Win
Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, October 28, 2009

A New Role For the IMF?

Mark Weisbrot
The Guardian Unlimited, October 8, 2009

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Press Releases

New Book Finds that Latin America Guarantees Paid Leave to New Moms, But Dads Have to Keep Working

November 17, 2009

New Report Looks at Honduran Economy Before and Since the Coup

November 9, 2009

Honduras' Most Prominent Human Rights Expert Calls on Obama Administration to Denounce "Grave Human Rights Violations"

November 5, 2009

CEPR Responds to IMF’s Defense of Questionable Policies During World Recession

October 22, 2009

State Department Officials Challenge Administration Policy on Honduras, Signal Moves Towards Recognizing November Elections

October 19, 2009

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Other Resources

Video: IMF-Supported Macroeconomic Policies and the World Recession: A Look at Forty-One Borrowing Countries
Discussion featuring CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot,  Robert Weissman, President, Public Citizen, Asia Russell, Director of International Policy, Health Global Access Project, James Roaf, Deputy Division Chief in the Emerging Markets Unit of Strategy, Policy, and Review Department (SPR) at the IMF, that was moderated by Jo Marie Griesgraber, Executive Director, New Rules for Global Finance Coalition. October 15, 2009.

Video:
The IMF's New Lending in a Time of Global Economic Downturn
Discussion featuring CEPR-Co-Director
Mark Weisbrot with Hugh Bredenkamp, Deputy Director of Strategy, Policy, and Review Department at the IMF; Doug Rediker, Director of the Global Strategic Finance Initiative at the New America Foundation; Robert Weissman, Director of Essential Action, and Nancy Alexander of the Heinrich Boell Foundation.

Transcript: The IMF`s Crisis Lending: Cuts in Social Spending Demanded for Poor Countries as G8 Plans Stimulus, Media briefing featuring CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot, Peter Bujari, executive director of the Human Development Trust in Tanzania and Inga Paparde, Latvian AIDS activist and journalist, and Joanne Carter, executive director RESULTS Educational Fund. April 22, 2009

Video: Ecuador`s Debt Audit: Implications in the Global Economic Crisis
Minister of Finance of Ecuador, María Elsa Viteri, discussed the implications of the Ecuadorian debt situation in the context of the global economic crisis, including the negative impacts of deregulation of the financial markets and the lack of appropriate established international mechanisms for auditing developing country debt. December 11, 2008.

Audio and Video: Global Financial Stability: What Role for the IMF?, Discussion featuring Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot, Co-Directors at CEPR. October 9, 2008

Low-Wage European Research Network (LoWER)
This international network brings together European researchers on wages, inequality, immigration, gender and employment behaviour to address the problem of social exclusion.

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IFI Watchnet
This international network connects organizations researching the international financial institutions such as the World Bank, the IMF, and regional development banks.

Institutional Change and Economic Development Book Cover

Institutional Change and Economic Development
edited by Ha-Joon Chang
United Nations University Press (2007)

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