6.2 Role of IMF in Poverty Reduction

The Fund's macro-mandate: the stability's guardian (the surveillance-and-the-rows (the Article- IV's periodic (the fiscal-monetary's advice))); the lending's programs (the ECF's concessional line (the poverty-reduction-and-growth's successor (the PRGT's world (the extended-credit's Nepal-era lore (the 1980s'-and-beyond programs)))); the debt-relief's participation (the HIPC-and-MDRI (the multilateral's cancellation (the developing's debt-face (the U2-LAW5608's depth)))). The poverty- relevance: the macro-stability-as-pro-poor argument (the growth's foundation) vs the austerity's critique (the social-spending's squeeze (the conditionality's poverty-impact debate (the exam's balance))); the Fund's social-floor's evolution (the spending-floors' protection (the newer programs' design)).