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How to Reform the IMF

Current History, 2010
The ongoing shift in the distribution of global financial power could come just in time to revitalize the IMF and other major international financial institutions.
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Strengthening IMF Surveillance: An Assessment of Recent Reforms

2009
The authors assess the potential impact of recently approved reforms to International Monetary Fund (IMF) surveillance; namely, the "2007 Decision on Bilateral Surveillance Over Members' Policies" and the "Statement of Surveillance Priorities" (SSP).
Lavigne, Robert, Schembri, Lawrence
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Reforming IMF Conditionality

World Economics Journal, 2009
As it has for many years, International Monetary Fund conditionality is currently receiving much attention in the context of the global financial crisis. At the beginning of the 2000s the Fund introduced a policy of ‘streamlining’ intended to reduce the amount of conditionality and refocus it, with a view to increasing country ownership and ...
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Reforming the IMF: Lessons from Modern Central Banking

2008
The authors examine the institutional and governance framework of modern central banks to determine whether there are lessons that can be applied to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) institutional framework. Such a comparison is appealing for two reasons.
Maier, Philipp, Santor, Eric
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IMF programs and reforms — inhibition or encouragement?

Economics Letters, 2007
Abstract We analyze the impact of International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs on market-oriented reforms. Employing panel data for 116 countries over the period 1970–2000 we find that the net effect of IMF programs on reforms is negative.
Axel Dreher, Sarah M. Rupprecht
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Reforming the IMF's Lending-into-Arrears Framework

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
Episodes of sovereign default are typically associated with significant economic costs. The International Monetary Fund can help to mitigate these costs in a variety of ways, including by lending into arrears. Careful design of the broad policy framework governing the Fund’s involvement can help to ensure it has the maximum beneficial impact, without ...
Paul Bedford, Gregor Irwin
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A lost opportunity for IMF reform?

2011
The International Monetary Fund executive board will complete interviews of the two leading candidates to replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn this week, with the aim of picking a new managing director by June 30. Mexican central bank chief Agustin Carstens fronted the board overnight, promising a consensus-building approach to running the institution.
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Reform of the IMF and World Bank

1995
Today, I will focus mainly on the IMF and the bipartisan, majority proposals for reform and change. These proposals have been publicly available for more than a month. I am pleased to note that they have attracted considerable attention including favorable editorials in many leading newspapers at home and abroad.
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Integrative oncology: Addressing the global challenges of cancer prevention and treatment

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2022
Jun J Mao,, Msce, Lorenzo Cohen, Karen M Mustian   +2 more
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Lebanese politics will inhibit IMF-sought reforms

Emerald Expert Briefings
Headline LEBANON: Politics will inhibit IMF-sought reforms
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