cooperation between regional institutions and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). While the case for coordination between … appreciated. The relatively successful cooperation among the European Commission, European Central Bank, and IMF on the European … of coordination failure could be very large. Recent innovations at the IMF, on the other hand, present opportunities for …

In the first decade of the 21st century the International Monetary Fund (IMF) faced crises of legitimacy, relevance … about the modest package of IMF reforms that was completed in the spring of 2008. The package requires US congressional … approval to go into effect. This paper reviews the recent, slow progress on IMF reform and makes recommendations to the Obama …

Fund (IMF). Author Edwin M. Truman advocates a substantial expansion of the IMF's role as lender of last resort that is … integrated with the surveillance role of the IMF in the form of comprehensive prequalification for IMF assistance and policy … advice and a substantial increase in the IMF's financial resources. Truman also propose an approach to meaningful reform of …

(IMF) and other countries were mistaken in treating the European crises as individual country crises rather than as a …