IMF, Democracy and Economic Development: Review and Critique
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Keywords
IMF; democracy; reforms; political implications;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E02 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Institutions and the Macroeconomy
- F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
- G01 - Financial Economics - - General - - - Financial Crises
- O43 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Institutions and Growth
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DCM-2017-06-04 (Discrete Choice Models)
- NEP-MAC-2017-06-04 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-PKE-2017-06-04 (Post Keynesian Economics)
- NEP-POL-2017-06-04 (Positive Political Economics)
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