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Jun 3, 2025
Kentikelenis, Alexandros; Stubbs, Thomas, 2025, "Replication Data for: Progressive rhetoric, regressive reality: The IMF's tax advice to 125 countries, 2022-2024", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GNYXU1, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:ztOo5eJkskYr1PXFhx5hMQ== [fileUNF]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has faced scrutiny over the alignment between its public rhetoric and actual policy advice vis-a-vis progressive taxation. This article analyzes the IMF’s tax recommendations to 125 countries between 2022 and 2024, drawing on a novel dataset of 1,049 tax reform proposals extracted from Article IV surveillance r... |
Jan 17, 2025 - Harvard Dataverse
Forster, Timon; Honig, Dan; Kentikelenis, Alexandros, 2025, "Replication Data for: Formal governance matters: when, how, and why states act on the IMF Executive Board", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7N7LCH, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:852QMrDOdj5wSH0bPJ+wPA== [fileUNF]
International financial institutions (IFIs) are central actors shaping global development. Scholarship on these institutions’ governance has primarily explored unequal voting rights and informal channels of decision-making. Much less is known about the actual decision-making processes that transpire in the IFIs’ formal governance structures, where... |
May 8, 2024 - Harvard Dataverse
Kentikelenis, Alexandros; Stubbs, Thomas, 2024, "Replication Data for: Social protection and the International Monetary Fund: Promise versus performance", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KVVFV1, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Background: Countries in the Global South are currently facing momentous economic and social challenges, including major debt service problems. As in previous periods of global financial instability, a growing number of countries have turned to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for financial assistance. The organization has a long track-record... |
Jun 26, 2023
Reinsberg, Bernhard; Stubbs, Thomas; Kentikelenis, Alexander, 2023, "Replication Data for: Compliance, defiance, and the dependency trap: International Monetary Fund program interruptions and their impact on capital markets", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BYDWI7, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:3qO3MqqjL92GE/3j9fXboA== [fileUNF]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is infamous for its structural adjustment programs, requiring countries to undertake policy reforms in exchange for loans. Yet, not only do countries routinely fail to implement these reforms, but they also frequently return to the IMF to start the process anew. What explains this compelling case of transnation... |
Kentikelenis, Alexandros; Stubbs, Thomas, 2023, "Replication Data for: A Thousand Cuts: Social Protection in the Age of Austerity", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DPV99L, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:1xPXulyllhbzzMG4Zfj5Rg== [fileUNF]
The dominant policy response to economic crises over the past four decades has been the introduction of austerity. How has this mix of budget cuts and reforms to downsize the role of the state evolved over time? What affect has it had on social policies and on people’s lives? This book examines the activities of the world’s leading advocate of aust... |
Jan 5, 2023
Reinsberg, Bernhard; Stubbs, Thomas; Bujnoch, Louis, 2023, "Replication Data for: Structural adjustment, alienation, and mass protest", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/O3JRHJ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:Ne7SspR7540SHSeGNXHKRA== [fileUNF]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is (in)famous for its structural adjustment programs, which provide fresh credit for borrowing governments in exchange for market-liberalizing policy reforms. While studies have documented a causal relationship between structural adjustment and political instability, scholarly understanding of the mechanisms un... |
Oct 27, 2021
Kentikelenis, Alexander; Stubbs, Thomas, 2021, "Replication Data for: Austerity redux: The post-pandemic wave of budget cuts and the future of global public health", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/M7DIJJ, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:eM2FWT6hgz7iys8BYnZv0Q== [fileUNF]
The convergence of health, economic and social crises over the past 1.5 years has posed profound questions over the direction of travel for the world after Covid-19. The narrative emerging out of major international organizations like the International Monetary Fund stresses avoiding a ‘divergent recovery,’ whereby some countries steam ahead with h... |
Apr 22, 2021
Reinsberg, Bernhard; Kentikelenis, Alexander; Stubbs, Thomas, 2021, "Replication Data for: Creating crony capitalism: Neoliberal globalization and the fueling of corruption", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MFZGIY, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:x8eV5wfqSYUE78qHExlgZw== [fileUNF]
This article examines how neoliberal policies mandated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) impact on corruption in developing countries. Combining domestic political analysis with world systems and dependency theories, we hypothesize that these reforms concentrate losses on influential social groups such as businesses and civil servants, who t... |
Apr 22, 2021
Reinsberg, Bernhard; Stubbs, Thomas; Kentikelenis, Alexander, 2021, "Replication Data for: Taxing the people, not trade: The International Monetary Fund and the structure of taxation in developing countries", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ULG3Q9, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:AddM6B0kwnVQ9tco12DzRQ== [fileUNF]
Strengthening fiscal capacity in low- and middle-income countries is essential for achieving sustainable development. The International Monetary Fund—the world’s premier agent of fiscal policy reform—has taken a front-stage role in this process, promoting a model of tax policy that favors broad-based consumption taxes and discourages trade taxes. T... |
Apr 22, 2021
Reinsberg, Bernhard; Stubbs, Thomas; Kentikelenis, Alexander; King, Lawrence, 2021, "Replication Data for: The political economy of labor market deregulation during IMF interventions", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DDBKCD, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:GALuSzlK0HLc0D0pwe1G/g== [fileUNF]
This study examines the relationship between policy interventions by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and de jure labor rights. Combining two novel data sets with unprecedented country-year coverage – leximetric data on labor laws and disaggregated data on IMF conditionality – our analysis of up to 70 developing countries from 1980 to 2014 dem... |
