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A Thousand Cuts: Social Protection in the Age of Austerity uses data from the IMF Monitor and was published by Oxford University Press in 2023. You can order it for £25.99 and receive a further 30% discount using the promotion code: ASFLYQ6. Supplementary statistical code is available at the IMF Monitor Dataverse.

In A Thousand Cuts, Alexandros Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs provide a comprehensive analysis of IMF policies around the world. Based on novel data from the IMF archives, Kentikelenis and Stubbs have generated a replicable database of all IMF-mandated reforms from 1980-2019 to examine their effects on social policies and outcomes. They reveal that although the precise content of IMF-mandated austerity has changed, the organization continues to place a high burden of reform on countries in crisis. These reforms then decrease the availability of important social services and contribute to rises in income inequality and declines in population health.

This website presents data on the activities of the IMF compiled and published by academics and civil society.

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What is the IMF?

The International Monetary Fund is an intergovernmental organization engaged in monitoring economic and financial policies, offering technical assistance on economic affairs, and providing loans to countries in need.​

Founded in

1945

​after World War II

Available resources

$970 billion

as loans for members

Formed of

190

member countries

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