Governance

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The purpose of this project is to compile a text corpus of IMF Executive Board Minutes for country-specific meetings from 1995-2015. It systematizes all comments from Executive Board members across 3,111 low- and middle-income country discussions.

38 million

words in Executive Board discussions of low- and middle-income countries between 1995 and 2015.

Citation and Replication Data

Citation

This dataset underpins published research on IMF governance. If you use this dataset, please cite:

Forster, T., Honig, D., & Kentikelenis, A. (2025). Formal governance matters: When, how, and why states act on the IMF Executive Board. Review of International Political Economy, 32(3), 818–846. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2024.2441136

Replication Data

Replication files, including cleaned datasets, code, and documentation used in published research, are available via the IMF Monitor Dataverse:

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/imfmonitor