Efforts to liberalize world trade are increasingly focusing on strengthening the links between low-income countries … developing countries to choose fuller participation in the world trading system …

set up by treaty in 1945 to help promote the health of the world economy. Through its work, the IMF helps to keep the … world economy running as smoothly as possible. Its work is aimed partly at the prevention of economic and financial crises … countries' economic size, determine countries' voting power in the IMF and the limits to what they can borrow. The IMF and World …

Executive Board was last briefed in October 2008 (World Bank and IMF, 2008). Section III illustrates that notable gains would …

In this paper, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have drawn together available research findings on …

. Articles also look at the expansion of world trade, explore the impact of globalization on jobs, taxation, and the poor, a …Assiduously tracking the trends and consequences of globalization, the IMF's quarterly magazine Finance & Development … focuses on financial globalization, including the policy implications of the huge growth in cross-border capital flows …

This 2002 Annual Report describes world economic and financial developments in FY2002. During FY2002, the IMF faced … important new challenges in an unusually unsettled world environment. After a period of strong expansion, the global economy …