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The IMF, World Bank and Policy Reform

2012
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Zanardi, Maurizio, Paloni, Alberto
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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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Slipping into Obscurity? Crisis and Reform at the IMF

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
Top policymakers worry today that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) risks 'slipping into obscurity'. What explains the IMF's declining influence? Two significant developments have been the declining demand for IMF loans from middle-income borrowers, and the emergence of a more critical view towards the institution from US policymakers in recent ...
Eric Helleiner, Bessma Momani
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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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IMF REFORM - AN OPEN AGENDA [PDF]

Revista economica, 2010
The financial crisis calls for a reform of the international monetary system and its institutions, so that they can more adequately reflect changing economic weights in the world economy and be more responsive to future challenges. This paper presents some contributions to the debate on the reform of the International Monetary Fund and international ...
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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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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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Reform of the IMF and World Bank

2018
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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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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The IMF Structural Reforms: Inconsistencies in the Program

2005
Abstract The IMF programs failed to take into account possible conflicts between different reform measures and objectives such as the conflicts between stabilization policies and structural reforms, and between operational restructuring and institutional reform.
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