The crisis brought the financial system to the verge of systemic collapse and raised the prospect of depression and deflation. Central banks helped defuse these threats, including through exceptional measures. Considerable efforts are now under way to draw policy lessons from the crisis. For...

The following is the provisional agenda for the Twenty-Second Meeting of the International Monetary and Financial Committee, which is to be convened at the Fund's Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on October 8-9, 2010. A joint working breakfast of IMFC members and G-20 ministers on Next Steps on...