What role for social policy in IMF discourse?

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Abstract

In the context of the varieties of crises afflicting the world since the turn of the twenty-first century and the unanswered question of how to make growth inclusive, this chapter examines the extent to which high level IMF discourse actively reflects commitment to redistribution (through public spending, public service expansion and fiscal reform) as an essential component of inclusive growth, or whether inclusive growth is framed within the IMF’s established patterns of advice where social policy is simply another economic instrument stripped of its social and transformative goals. Following discussion of the rise of the inclusive growth agenda amongst International Governmental Organisations and the IMF specifically, it reports quantitative content analysis to assess both the temporal and ideational associations between growth that is inclusive and the social policies that make it so.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Oxford Handbook of the International Monetary Fund
EditorsBessma Momani, Mark Hibben
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherOxford University Press
Chapter21
Pages417-440
Number of pages23
ISBN (Print)978-0-19-285840-5
Publication statusPublished - 5 Oct 2024

Keywords

  • International Monetary Fund
  • inclusive growth
  • global social policy
  • IMF discourse
  • quantitative content analysis
  • redistribution first policies

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