 Whatever it takes? The global financial safety net, Covid-19, and developing countriesThomas Stubbs, William Kring, Christina Laskaridis, Alexander Kentikelenis and Kevin Gallagher World Development, 2021, vol. 137, issue C Abstract: Multilateral financial institutions have pledged to do whatever it takes to enable emerging market and developing countries to fill a $2.5 trillion financing gap to combat Covid-19 and subsequent economic crises. In this article, we present new datasets to track the extent to which multilateral financial institutions are meeting these goals, and conduct a preliminary assessment of progress to date. We find that the International Monetary Fund and the principal regional financial arrangements have made relatively trivial amounts of new financing available and have been slow to disburse the financing at their disposal. As of July 31, 2020, these institutions had committed $89.56 billion in loans and $550 million in currency swaps, totaling $90.11 billion—just 12.6% of their current capacity. The new datasets allow scholars, policymakers, and civil society to continue to track these trends, and eventually examine the impact of such financing on health and development outcomes. Keywords: Global financial safety net; Global economic governance; International Monetary Fund; Regional financial arrangements; Covid-19 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:137:y:2021:i:c:s0305750x20302989 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105171 Access Statistics for this article World Development is currently edited by O. T. Coomes More articles in World Development from Elsevier |
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