IMF-Supported Programs in Low-Income Countries: Fragile versus Non-Fragile States

Volume/Issue: Volume 2024 Issue 221

Publication date: October 2024

ISBN: 9798400289866

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Inflation , Labor , Economics- Macroeconomics , IMF Programs , LICs , Fragility , Tailoring , Optimism , appendix H , country classification , fragile and conflicted-affected states , histogram of program approval , growth optimism , IMF country team , FCS classification , Pb XOXG , FCS program , Inflation , Fiscal stance , Wages , Debt reduction , Stocks , Sub-Saharan Africa , Global , IMF working papers , IMF program , IMF-supported program , Kaihao Cai

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Summary

This paper examines the macroeconomic frameworks of IMF-supported programs with low-income countries from 2009 to 2022, focusing on how macroeconomic targets and their achievement differ between fragile and conflicted-affected states (FCS) and non-FCS. Key findings include similar program targets for FCS and non-FCS, optimism in all dimensions considered other than inflation, and no significant correlation between targets and outcomes. For variables other than inflation, country-independent targets equal to the mean or median outcomes of other programs outperform program projections as predictors of actual outcomes. This underscores the challenges in setting realistic, country and program-specific targets in IMF-supported programs with low-income countries. Finally, we discuss potential caveats, including GDP rebenchmarking, non-linear relationship between initial conditions and targets, and repeat programs. We do not study, and make no claims about, causality.