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Recovery with a Human Face

A discussion on alternatives for a socially-responsive crisis recovery
 

April 11th, 2014

4/11/2014

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Dear friends,

At the time of the IMF Spring Meetings, we have published new research on the policy conditions attached to IMF loans. Eurodads research found that:

- The number of policy conditions per loan has risen in recent years, despite IMF efforts to streamline their conditionality. Eurodad counted an average of 19.5 conditions per programme. This is a sharp increase compared to previous Eurodad research, which found an average of 13.7 structural conditions per programme in 2005-07 and 14 per programme in 2003-04.

- The biggest IMF facilities in terms of loan totals have the heaviest conditionality. This rise is driven by exceptionally high numbers of conditions in Cyprus, Greece and Jamaica, which together accounted for 87% of the total value of loans, with an average of 35 structural conditions per programme.

- Almost all the countries were repeat borrowers from the IMF, suggesting that the IMF is propping up governments with unsustainable debt levels, not lending for temporary balance of payments problems its true mandate.

- Widespread and increasing use of controversial conditions in politically sensitive economic policy areas, particularly tax and spending, including increases in VAT and other taxes, freezes or reductions in public sector wages, and cutbacks in welfare programmes including pensions. Use of these types of conditions tends to be lower in low-income countries, but is very high in some of the largest programmes. Other sensitive topics include requirements to reduce trade union rights, restructure and privatise public enterprises, and reduce minimum wage levels

To read the full report, click: http://eurodad.org/files/pdf/533bd19646b20.pdf.

Best regards.

Jesse Griffiths
Director EURODAD
European Network on Debt and Development
Brussels, Belgium
www.eurodad.org

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