02084cas a2200277 a 4500 AALejournalIMF013097 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475510706 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Arezki, Rabah. Structural Reforms, IMF Programs and Capacity Building : An Empirical Investigation / Rabah Arezki, Marc Quintyn, Frederik Toscani. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012. 1 online resource (29 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper investigates the role that International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs and capacity building play in fostering structural reforms. To do so, we exploit two novel datasets on IMF capacity building and structural reforms available for over one hundred IMF member countries over the period 1980 - 2010. The main results are threefold. First, there is a general association between IMF programs and structural reforms but this relationship is not very robust. Second, IMF training leads to an increase in structural reforms but only through IMF programs and only when a significant share of public servants is trained. Third, IMF technical assistance does not significantly lead to more structural reforms but raises the likelihood of completion of ongoing IMF programs. Our results are robust to a large number of checks, estimators and correcting for endogeneity. Mode of access: Internet Congo, Democratic Republic of the imf Quintyn, Marc. Toscani, Frederik. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/232 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2012/232/001.2012.issue-232-en.xml IMF e-Library