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Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund, Fortieth Issue

Autor: International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.

Número de Páginas: 854

This volume is the Fortieth Issue of Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the IMF. It includes decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Board and the Board of Governors of the IMF, as well as selected documents, to which frequent reference is made in the current activities of the IMF. In addition, it includes certain documents relating to the IMF, the United Nations, and other international organizations. As with other recent issues, the number of decisions in force continues to increase, with the decision format tending to be longer given the use of summings up in lieu of formal decisions. Accordingly, it has become necessary to delete certain decisions that were included in earlier issues, that is, those that only completed or called for reviews of decisions, those that lapsed, and those that were superseded by more recent decisions. Wherever reference is made in these decisions and documents to a provision of the IMF’s Articles of Agreement or Rules and Regulations that has subsequently been renumbered by, or because of, the Second Amendment of the Fund’s Articles of Agreement (effective April 1, 1978), the corresponding provision currently in...

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund, 42nd Issue

Autor: International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.

Número de Páginas: 962

This volume documents decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Board and Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund, as well as documents relating to the United Nations and other international organizations.

Strengthening the International Monetary System - Taking Stock and Looking Ahead

Autor: International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, & Review Department , International Monetary Fund. Finance Dept. , International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept. , International Monetary Fund. Monetary And Capital Markets Department , International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.

Número de Páginas: 33

The current IMS has survived for over forty years, underpinning strong growth in GDP and in the international exchange of goods and capital, one of its core objectives. As a result, interdependence among the world’s economies has grown dramatically, making the existence of a sound system ever more important. At the same time, the system has exhibited many symptoms of instability—frequent crises, persistent current account imbalances and exchange rate misalignments, volatile capital flows and currencies, and unprecedentedly large reserve accumulation. These symptoms have come to a head since the 2008 crisis and brought renewed international momentum to the idea of attempting to reform the IMS. Yet the debate so far suggests little consensus on the underlying problems, let alone on the solutions. This paper identifies four root causes to these problems: inadequate global adjustment mechanisms to prevent inconsistent or imprudent policies among systemic countries; lack a comprehensive oversight framework for growing cross-border capital flows, covering both source and recipient countries; inadequate systemic liquidity provision mechanisms; and structural challenges in the supply...

IMF History Volume 2 (1945-1965)

Autor: International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 652

This paper discusses the history of the first 20 years of the IMF. It attempts to recount objectively what were its origins and what have been its plans and activities. The paper contains a chronological account of the evolution of the IMF from the original plans formulated in 1941 to the end of 1965, with a supplementary chapter summarizing subsequent events. It analyzes the IMF’s policies in three major fields and reviews its constitutional development.

The IMF and the World Bank

Autor: International Monetary Fund. External Relations Department , David D. Driscoll

IMF History Volume 3 (1945-1965)

Autor: International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 572

This paper comprises documents relating to the history of the IMF, including some that preceded the drafting of the Articles of Agreement. The paper highlights that the first draft of Lord Keynes’ plan for a Clearing Union was circulated within the British Treasury on September 8, 1941. A fourth draft was given to Ministers on February 11, 1942. The first definitive version of Mr. White’s plan for a stabilization fund was a mimeographed draft dated April 1942. This covered both the IMF and the World Bank.

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund, Thirty-Sixth Issue

Autor: International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 1074

The Thirty-Sixth Issue of Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund includes decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Board and the Board of Governors of the IMF, as well as selected documents relevant to the current activities of the Fund.

International Monetary Fund Annual Report 1948

Autor: International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 137

This paper reviews key findings of the IMF’s Annual Report for the fiscal year ended April 1948. The report highlights that during 1947 and in the early part of 1948, considerable progress was made in strengthening the economies that suffered devastation and dislocation as a result of the war. Over the world, generally production rose and recovery continued, despite widespread political tension and conflict, and disturbances. In nearly all countries, however, the need and demand for goods continued to be abnormally great, and there were increasing difficulties in meeting international payments for import surpluses.

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund

Autor: International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.

Número de Páginas: 1064

This volume is the Forty-Third Issue of Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund. It includes decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Board and the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund, as well as selected documents, to which frequent reference is made in the current activities of the Fund. In addition, it includes certain documents relating to the Fund, the United Nations, and other international organizations.

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund

Autor: International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 1017

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund includes decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Board and Board of Governors of the IMF, as well as selected documents to which frequent reference is made in the current activities of the Fund. In addition, it includes certain documents pertaining to the relations between the Fund and other international organizations.

International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2016

Autor: International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 130

The year was marked by difficult challenges and milestone achievements. To reinvigorate modest growth at a time of uncertainty about a complicated global economy, the IMF membership endorsed a three-pronged approach of monetary, fiscal, and structural policies to get the world economy back on a stronger and safer growth track. Highlights of the IMF’s work during the year included entry into effect of its quota and governance reforms approved in 2010, which increase the Fund’s core resources and make it more representative of the membership; commitments for increased financial support, policy advice, expertise, and training to help low-income developing countries achieve the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals; analysis of the international monetary system; inclusion of the Chinese currency in the basket of currencies that make up the Special Drawing Right; and policy advice on the economic repercussions of mass migration of refugees from Syria and other conflict-afflicted states. The IMF Annual Report, which covers the period May 1, 2015 to April 30, 2016, discusses all of these issues, plus a wide range of policy matters that the Executive Board addressed during the year.

Historical Dictionary of the International Monetary Fund

Autor: Norman K. Humphreys

Número de Páginas: 392

The entries in the Dictionary describe the economic and financial concepts employed by the Fund, its operational policies and facilities, its departmental structure and staffing, and its decision making authority, including the system of weighted voting by member countries. This volume fully updates and expands the 1993 edition, while maintaining the author's commitment to thoroughness and accuracy.

What is the International Monetary Fund?

Autor: International Monetary Fund. External Relations Department

Número de Páginas: 56

An introductory guide to the IMF, its history, and its role in the international financial system. Explains for a general audience the IMF's lending policies, how decisions are made, and where the money comes from. Gives details of the structure of the IMF, its increasing transparency, how it provides technical assistance to member countries, its role in crisis prevention, and how it is helping the world's poorest countries. Reprinted in 2003. Revised July 2004.

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund, Thirty-Eighth Issue

Autor: International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.

Número de Páginas: 1026

This volume documents decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Board and Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund, as well as documents relating to the United Nations and other international organizations.

The Unique Nature of the Responsibilities of the International Monetary Fund

Autor: Mr.manuel Guitián

Número de Páginas: 76

Bretton Woods constituted the first formal international agreement on a code of conduct applicable for economic transactions among countries that had subscribed to it. This pamphlet focuses on only one aspect of that code of conduct: the norms that have guided the conduct of financial and exchange transactions among countries, as they have been presented in the original Articles of Agreement of the IMF and their subsequent amendments. The paper outlines the fundamental characteristics of the IMF, examines the direct link between surveillance and conditionalilty, explores potential risks and dangers that might compromise certain fundamental features of the institution, and presents a set of ideas and proposals to ensure the activities of the IMF maintain continuity of its institutional uniqueness.

Membership and Nonmembership in the International Monetary Fund

Autor: International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 698

IMF economists work closely with member countries on a variety of issues. Their unique perspective on country experiences and best practices on global macroeconomic issues are often shared in the form of books on diverse topics such as cross-country comparisons, capacity building, macroeconomic policy, financial integration, and globalization.

Report of the Managing Director to the International Monetary and Financial Committee on the IMF's Policy Agenda

Autor: International Monetary Fund. Policy Development And Review Dept. , International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, & Review Department

Número de Páginas: 39

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Money Talks

Autor: Erica R. Gould

Número de Páginas: 308

analyzes the changes in conditions placed on International Monetary Fund loans to states over the last fifty years and argues that the changes can be explained by shifts in the sources of the IMF's funding.

What is the International Monetary Fund?

Autor: International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 30

An introductory guide to the IMF, its history, and its role in the international financial system. Explains for a general audience the IMF’s lending policies, how decisions are made, and where the money comes from. Gives details of the structure of the IMF, its increasing transparency, how it provides technical assistance to member countries, its role in crisis prevention, and how it is helping the world’s poorest countries. Revised in August 2006.

International Monetary Fund & Private Business Transactions

Autor: International Monetary Fund

Report of the Managing Director to the International Monetary and Financial Committee on the IMF's Policy Agenda-IMF Responses to Global Economic Challenges

Autor: International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 21

The report provides an update on work in the following areas: global stability, IMF lending, food and fuel price developments, and modernizing the IMF.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Autor: James Raymond Vreeland

Número de Páginas: 299

This is a clear and concise introduction to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an overview of its debates and controversies. Where did the IMF come from? What does it do? Why do so many governments participate in its programs and what are their effects? How can we best reform this key global institution? These are some of the key questions addressed. In our age of thinking global, the IMF is a crucial institution and central to understanding international relations and current affairs. Founded in the aftermath of the Second World War, its basic purposes were to facilitate world trade and promote national prosperity. The founders hoped that never again would the world experience the trade policies that led up to the Great Depression. This book outlines and questions these targets and assesses actual achievements. It also details how despite originally focusing on Europe, the Fund has gradually shifted to involvement with poorer developing countries, but to what ends and with how much success? This study both poses and tackles the tough questions facing our global community today.

The International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 31

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund, Thirty-Ninth Issue

Autor: International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.

Número de Páginas: 1048

This volume documents decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Board and Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund, as well as documents relating to the United Nations and other international organizations.

World Bank International Monetary Fund Collaboration on Public Expenditure Issues

Autor: International Monetary Fund. Fiscal Affairs Dept. , World Bank

Número de Páginas: 45

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Progress Report to the International Monetary and Financial Committee on the Activities of the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF

Autor: International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 3

This progress report presents the key conclusions and recommendations of the IEO evaluation of data and statistics at the IMF that was discussed by the Executive Board on March 17, 2016. It also summarizes the IMF's plan, approved by the Board in December 2015, for implementing the recommendations from the IEO evaluation of the IMF Response to the Financial and Economic Crisis and describes the IEO’s ongoing work.

Financing, Adjustment, and the International Monetary Fund

Autor: Peter B. Kenen

Número de Páginas: 108

Study on the evolution of the International Monetary Fund as a financial institution during its existence and some recommendations for reform of the structure.

The International Monetary Fund

Autor: James Raymond Vreeland

Número de Páginas: 172

This is a clear and concise introduction to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and an overview of its debates and controversies. Where did the IMF come from? What does it do? Why do so many governments participate in its programs and what are their effects? How can we best reform this key global institution? These are some of the key questions addressed. In our age of thinking global, the IMF is a crucial institution and central to understanding international relations and current affairs. Founded in the aftermath of the Second World War, its basic purposes were to facilitate world trade and promote national prosperity. The founders hoped that never again would the world experience the trade policies that led up to the Great Depression. This book outlines and questions these targets and assesses actual achievements. It also details how despite originally focusing on Europe, the Fund has gradually shifted to involvement with poorer developing countries, but to what ends and with how much success? This study both poses and tackles the tough questions facing our global community today.

What is the International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 0

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund, Fortieth Issue Supplement

Autor: International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.

Número de Páginas: 114

The Fund’s Legal Department has produced this Supplement to Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the IMF, 40th Issue, with the aim of making available in convenient form selected policy decisions and documents issued after the publication of the 40th Issue but before the issuance of the forthcoming 40th Issue.

International Monetary System

Autor: International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 26

This paper addresses several fundamental issues raised by recent developments in the world economy and considers their implications for the design and functioning of the international monetary system. We do not make any proposals. The four issues examined in the paper are: (1) Can the exchange rate regime do much to discipline fiscal policy?; (2) What are the extent and costs of reduced monetary independence under greater fixity of exchange rates?; (3) How can the equilibrium exchange rate best be determined?; and (4) Does a well functioning international monetary system require a clearly defined set of rules, an acknowledged leader, and an explicit anchor?

Statement by the Managing Director to the International Monetary and Financial Committee on the Fund’s Policy Agenda

Autor: International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 4

Since the IMFC last met, the global economic recovery has gathered strength and financial conditions have kept improving; but members continue to face multiple and diverse challenges—slow growth, high unemployment, and fiscal and financial vulnerabilities in many advanced economies; and rapid credit growth and overheating pressures in some emerging markets. Rising food and energy prices have returned, further constraining policies. Meanwhile, global imbalances show no sign of abating, and volatility in cross border financial flows and exchange rates remains high. The outlook has been further challenged recently by unpredictable shocks: the tragic events in Japan and developments across the Middle East and North Africa. The latter also contain an important lesson for policy makers, namely that the quality of growth—especially its ability to combat unacceptably high unemployment and inequality—is critical to the sustainability of growth.

Financial Organization and Operations of the IMF

Autor: International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 228

This pamphlet describes the financial structure and operations of the IMF, as well as the sources of IMF financing, the policies associated with the use of IMF resources, the role of the IMF as trustee to various accounts that are administered by it, and the safeguards established for protecting the IMF's resources. Published in 1990. Extensively revised in 2001 (sixth edition).

Managing Director’s Global Policy Agenda to the International Monetary and Financial Committee

Autor: International Monetary Fund

Número de Páginas: 17

etary and Financial Committee Publication Date: April 5, 2014 Electronic Access:Free Full Text. Use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this PDF file Summary:Global activity is strengthening, but the recovery is uneven and remains too weak for comfort, with geopolitical tensions injecting new concerns. Key challenges include risks from a lasting rise in capital flow volatility for emerging and frontier economies and very low inflation in advanced economies, especially the euro area. Creating a more dynamic, job rich global economy remains our collective goal. For this, policymakers should manage the recovery more actively and reinforce their cooperation to minimize negative spillovers and promote financial stability. The Executive Summary is also available in Arabic , Chinese, French, Japanese, Russian , and Spanish.