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Does the World Need a Universal Financial Institution?

Boughton, James M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

All financial institutions specialize, in dimensions that may include categories of assets and liabilities, types of services offered, customer demographics, and geographic coverage. The International Monetary Fund is the only international financial institution that is universal in its...

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Is Policy Ownership An Operational Concept?

Boughton, James M.; Mourmouras, Alex - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

IMF lending is generally conditional on specified policies and outcomes. These conditions usually are negotiated …

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Financial Sector Surveillance and the IMF

Gola, Carlo; Spadafora, Francesco - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

The global financial crisis has magnified the role of Financial Sector Surveillance (FSS) in the Fund's activities. This paper surveys the various steps and initiatives through which the Fund has increasingly deepened its involvement in FSS. Overall, this process can be characterized by a...

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Out of the Box Thoughts About the International Financial Architecture

Eichengreen, Barry J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

international financial architecture that might be implemented over the next ten years. It proposes routinizing the expansion of IMF … transactions, which would require someone-like the IMF-to act as market maker. It considers proposals for reimposing Glass …. Again there is likely to be a role for the IMF. Then there are arguments for a new agency or institution to deal with cross …

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Why White, Not Keynes? Inventing the Post-War International Monetary System

Boughton, James M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

The international monetary system is largely the product of negotiations during World War II between U.S. and U.K. officials, led respectively by Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes. The design of the system, especially the International Monetary Fund, reflects the U.S. plan much more...

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Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty Reduction; Stylized Facts and An Overview of Research

Cashin, Paul; Pattillo, Catherine A.; Sahay, Ratna; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

This paper provides a brief and selective overview of research on the links between macroeconomic policies and poverty reduction. Using the Human Development Index as a measure of well-being, the progress made by 100 countries during 1975–98 is presented, and its association with macroeconomic...

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The IMF and the force of History; Ten Events and Ten Ideas that Have Shaped the Institution

Boughton, James M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

shaped by their economics training and their nationalities. After the IMF began functioning as an institution, its evolution …

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The Two Monetary Approaches to the Balance of Payments; Keynesian and Johnsonian

Polak, J. J. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001

the IMF, the other under the leadership of Harry Johnson in Chicago. The IMF approach is presented as an evolutionary …-proclaimed revolutionary. It posits the ‘essentially monetary character’ of the balance of payments. The IMF model tests satisfactorily as an …

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