Chapter 3 Overview of the IMF’s Work on Fragile States
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13 Apr 2018
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IEOR; IEO; country; evaluation; IMF engagement; IMF TA; State fragility; member country's quota; program engagement; state legitimacy; NON-FRAGILE state

Abstract

The IMF maintains no formal list of fragile states, and it has relied broadly on the approach taken by the World Bank in identifying such countries for internal purposes. First, a low-income country, eligible for International Development Association (IDA) assistance,10 is considered fragile if the three-year moving average of its Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) scores, prepared by the World Bank, is 3.2 or lower.11 Second, and in addition, any country is considered fragile if there has been a United Nations or regional peace-keeping/building operation there during the previous three years or if the CPIA has not been computed because of conflict. The IMF’s definition differs from the World Bank’s in that it uses the three-year CPIA average rather than the annual score.12

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IMF and Fragile States
2018 Evaluation Report
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9781484347324
ISSN:
2617-670X
Publication Date:
13 Apr 2018
Publisher:
International Monetary Fund
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484347324.017
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84

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