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EQUITY INCLUSION and EDUCATION Examining Evidence on LowFee Private Schools GPE Stephan Bachenheimer As part of the Civil Society Policy Forum of the 2016 World BankIMF Annual Meetings EQUITY INCLUSION and EDUCATION . Internet: http://www.imf.org International Monetary Fund Washington, D.C. July 2013 Saudi Arabia has been one of the best performing G-20 economies in recent years and has played a key stabilizing October 2013. Mark . Weisbrot. , Director. Center for Economic and Policy Research. www.cepr.net. Biggest threat to the world economy continues to be Europe, although U.S. is not helping. IMF . overview of Europe is . Prepared by the Arab NGO Network for Development (ANND), the New America Foundation (NAF) and the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR). Picture adapted from: . http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2012/06/pictures/120618-large-fossil-fuel-subsidies/#/energy-fuel-subsidies-quiz_54907_600x450.jpg. Initiatives . around . the Globe. & . Role in . Poverty . Alleviation. Dr. Haroon ur Rashid Khan. King Abdulaziz University, . Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. & . Sysco Solutions, SAS, France. Microfinance. Questions. What factors led to the outbreak of the financial crises in the 1990s?. Did international organizations help or hurt these situations?. Who stands to lose and who stands to benefit from the IMF intervention?. Democracy,. and Income Inequality. By Rachel Azafrani and Leo Zucker. Literature: IMF Participation.... ...increases . poverty . (Handa & King 1997; Oberdabernig . 2012. ). ...adversely affects . Prakash Loungani . Chief, Development Macroeconomics, Research Department, IMF. Co-Chair, Jobs & Growth Working Group, IMF . IDRC/CDESG. October 13, 2015. Views expressed are those of the presenter and should not be ascribed to the IMF.. and Income Inequality. By Rachel Azafrani and Leo Zucker. “But IMF programs doubly hurt. others who are less well off: They lower growth and exacerbate income inequality. .” - Vreeland, 2003. . “By bringing in the IMF, governments gain political leverage - via conditionality - to push through unpopular policies. For certain constituencies, these policies dampen the effects of bad economic performance by redistributing income. . Antoinette M. . Sayeh. , Distinguished Visiting Fellow,. Introduction. Liberia. Mozambique. GDP Per Capita. 205.6. 528.93. Population Below National Poverty Line. 63.8. 54.7. CPIA. 2.8. 3.5. Sources: IMF . (2) An implication of . contractionary devaluation. (3) The car crash analogy. (4) Currency wars . (5) More on predicting crises. (6) EM conditions in 2014. Lecture 22: Crises in Emerging Markets. Appendix 1: Major IMF Country-Programs. Housekeeping. Brief Note: Why I assigned readings that are generally pro-IMF. : The IMF Benjamin Graham. Reading Quiz (1). Which of the following are true?. At the Bretton Woods Conference held in July 1944, delegates from 44 non-communist countries negotiated an agreement on the structure and operation of the international monetary system.. Origin of IMF:. October 2013. Mark . Weisbrot. , Director. Center for Economic and Policy Research. www.cepr.net. Biggest threat to the world economy continues to be Europe, although U.S. is not helping. IMF . overview of Europe is . Monday, 26 April 2021.  . The . Diverse Effects of COVID-19 on Employment, Income & Savings. Civil Society Round Table, 26 April, 2021.  . Mark Cassidy, Director of Economics and Statistics. 3.