In this difficult environment, the IMF is helping governments to protect and even increase social spending, including social assistance. In particular, the IMF is promoting measures to increase spending on, and improve the targeting of, social safety net programs that can mitigate the impact of the crisis on the most vulnerable in society. Below are some examples of how recent IMF-supported programs seek to protect social spending in a way that is both fiscally sustainable and cost-effective.
In this difficult environment, the IMF is helping governments find the necessary budgetary savings while ring-fencing social spending on the most vulnerable in society. Below are some examples of how recent IMF-supported programs have sought to protect social spending.
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