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Sep
7
2007
2:00—4:00 PM
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...
WORKING PAPERS
April 09, 2007
This paper examines IMF projections of donor aid to low-income countries and whether these projections changed after world leaders pledged at the 2005 Gleneagles G8 summit to double aid to Africa by 2010. The authors find that IMF projections since the post-Gleneagles Summit have shown little change...