This is substantially revised and updated version of a paper that was first published as a PERI Working Paper in August 2010.The response by the IMF (and developing country national governments) to the current global financial crisis represents a moment of what I term “productive...

Grabel addresses three related questions. How is the crisis affecting the governance of the IMF and the influence that developing countries have within the institution; the policy space available to developing countries; and the prospects that alternative financial architectures will emerge as...

Significantly revised, April 2011The paper examines three related questions. How is the crisis affecting the governance of the IMF and the influence that developing countries have within the institution; what new policy space is available to developing countries; and what alternative financial...