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Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust: 2024 Borrowing Agreements with Belgium, Denmark, France, Japan, Korea, And Qatar
International Monetary Fund. Finance Dept.
and
International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.
This paper presents the last six borrowing agreements that were concluded between October 2023 and February 2024 to provide new loan resources to the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) as part of the loan mobilization round launched in July 2021 to support low-income countries (LICs) during the pandemic and beyond. Five of the six agreements use SDRs in the context of SDR channeling. Together these borrowing agreements provide a total amount of SDR 3.9 billion in new PRGT loan resources. The 2021 loan fundraising campaign was concluded successfully. It mobilized total contributions of SDR 14.65 billion from 17 PRGT lenders, well exceeding the SDR 12.6 billion loan target.
Keywords:
transparency policy; PRGT loan disbursement; loan resource; SDR interest rate assumption; loan pledge; Loans; Poverty reduction and development; SDR interest rate
Cover IMF Working Papers
Winning the War? New Evidence on the Measurement and the Determinants of Poverty in the United States
Katharina Bergant
,
Miss Anke Weber
, and
Andrea Medici
Using micro-data from household expenditure surveys, we document the evolution of consumption poverty in the United States over the last four decades. Employing a price index that appears appropriate for low income households, we show that poverty has not declined materially since the 1980s and even increased for the young. We then analyze which social and economic factors help explain the extent of poverty in the U.S. using probit, tobit, and machine learning techniques. Our results are threefold. First, we identify the poor as more likely to be minorities, without a college education, never married, and living in the Midwest. Second, the importance of some factors, such as race and ethnicity, for determining poverty has declined over the last decades but they remain significant. Third, we find that social and economic factors can only partially capture the likelihood of being poor, pointing to the possibility that random factors (“bad luck”) could play a significant role.
Keywords:
Poverty; Inequality; Consumption; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs; consumption poverty; determinants of poverty; poverty indicator; poverty threshold; CPI assumption; inflation inequality; adjusted CPI-U; Poverty measurement; Income; Machine learning; Global
Cover IMF Staff Country Reports
Union of the Comoros: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper: Review of the Second Year of Implementation
International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Since its independence in 1975, the Union of Comoros has been deeply affected by political and institutional crises. Resolution of the separatist crisis on the island of Anjouan and subsequent national consolidation has constituted a historic turning point. The government has begun a wide-ranging program of structural reforms. The external debt of Comoros remains unsustainable. The government is making efforts to speed up the implementation of reforms and obtain access to a reduction in its debt burden.
Keywords:
ISCR; CR; private sector; public finance; financial support; rural area; value chain; feasibility study; Comorian authorities; Agroindustries; Global
Cover IMF Survey
IMF Survey, Volume 30, Issue 22
International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
The Web edition of the IMF Survey is updated several times a week, and contains a wealth of articles about topical policy and economic issues in the news. Access the latest IMF research, read interviews, and listen to podcasts given by top IMF economists on important issues in the global economy. www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/home.aspx
Keywords:
SVminister; countr; growth facility; IMF staff country; IMF treasurer's department; IMF publication service; fund facility; Terrorism financing; Poverty reduction strategy; Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT); Debt relief; Money laundering; Global; Africa; Caribbean; Europe; West Africa
Cover IMF Survey
IMF Survey, Volume 30, Issue 22
International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept.
The Web edition of the IMF Survey is updated several times a week, and contains a wealth of articles about topical policy and economic issues in the news. Access the latest IMF research, read interviews, and listen to podcasts given by top IMF economists on important issues in the global economy. www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/home.aspx
Keywords:
SV; bottom; minister; country; sc; growth facility; IMF staff country; IMF treasurer's department; fund facility; compensatory financing facility; Terrorism financing; Poverty reduction strategy; Debt relief; Anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT); Money laundering; Global; Africa; Caribbean; Europe; West Africa