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What are IMF surcharges, how do they harm the countries that pay them, and why were the IMF’s recent reforms to its surcharge policy insufficient? Read our updated two-pager on this unpopular and controversial IMF policy.
Feb 28, 2025
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Oct 7, 2024
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Explore the research on IMF surcharges and their effects on payment systems, banking, and public economics.
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IMF reviewing surcharge policy: why surcharges are counterproductive, unfair, and unnecessary. Learn more about the push to end surcharges.
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Uncover the truth about IMF surcharges. Find out why this policy has been criticized as regressive and counterproductive.
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This paper presents an estimate of IMF surcharges updated as of February 2024. It shows that 22 countries are now subject to surcharges, a net increase of 6 since our 2023 estimate.
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The IMF is considered a “super-senior” creditor for developing countries, but it is now charging over 8 percent for disbursements to its most indebted borrowers, due in part to surcharges.
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The IMF’s own data supports widespread concerns that the surcharge policy presents a tremendous burden on heavily indebted countries, which is only growing.
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New calculations negate one of the main rationales the IMF has put forward to justify its unfair, unnecessary, and counterproductive surcharge policy.
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The IMF must be brought into the twenty-first century if it is to play a constructive role in ending the climate crisis.
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Près de 80 pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire sont considérés par les institutions internationales comme surendettés ou présentant un risque de surendettement.
