"Volume 2022 (2022): Issue 056 (Feb 2022): United Kingdom: 2021 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Kingdom" published on 23 Feb International Monetary Fund.

BACKGROUND The potentially destructive polarisation between 'vertical' financing (aiming for disease-specific results) and 'horizontal' financing (aiming for improved health systems) of health services in developing countries has found its way to the pages of Foreign Affairs and the Financial Times. The opportunity offered by 'diagonal' financing (aiming for disease-specific results through imp...

Recently, there has been considerable interest in alternative stabilization programs in developing countries. This paper examines the possibility of implementing this type of program in a country that traditionally has had considerable difficulty in complying with International Monetary Fund programs. The macro-economic simulations of Jamaica's economy clearly show that successful supply-side p...

Thomas Egebo is an Administrator in Economic Prospects Division, Pete Richardson is the Head of the Econometric Unit and lan Lienert, previously an Administrator in Growth Studies Division, is now an Economist in the African Department of the International Monetary Fund. Special thanks go to John Martin and the referees for comments on earlier drafts and also to David Reifschneider, now at the ...

☆ The views expressed in this paper are our own and views or policies of the International Monetary Fund. W Lant Pritchett, DanWood, and to seminar participants at theWorld Bank, the IFPRI/Cornell conference on thresho growth and development, the AEA 2006 Annual Meeting for helpful comments and suggestions. Any errors are s ⁎ Corresponding author. Research Department, In Washington, DC 20431, U...

South Korea is one of the world's most rapidly industrializing countries. Along with industrialization has come universal health insurance. Within the span of 12 years, South Korea went from private voluntary health insurance to government-mandated universal coverage. Since 1997, with the intervention of the International Monetary Fund, Korean national health insurance (NHI) has experienced def...

"Volume 2022 (2022): Issue 053 (Nov 2022): Twelfth Periodic Monitoring Report On The Status Of Management Implementation Plans In Response To Board-Endorsed IEO Recommendations" published on 30 Nov by International Monetary Fund.

Subjective Probability Forecasts for Recessions Kajal Lahiri is distinguished professor of economics and director of the Econometric Research Institute at the University at Albany, SUNY. He has been a visiting scholar at the Social Security Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, and the International Monetary Fund. He has received grants and contracts from the National Science Found...

John Williamson, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, has been associated with the Institute since 1981. He was project director for the UN High-Level Panel on Financing for Development (the Zedillo Report) in 2001; on leave as chief economist for South Asia at the World Bank during 1996–99; economics professor at Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1978–81), University of W...