"While the birth of global economic governance is conventionally dated to the end of World War II, Jamie Martin shows how its roots lie in World War I and its aftermath. The Meddlers explores the intense political struggles about sovereignty and self-governance provoked by the first attempts to...

A sketch of the International Monetary Fund's 70-year history reveals an institution that has reinvented itself over time along multiple dimensions. This history is primarily consistent with a "demand driven" theory of institutional change, as the needs of its clients and the type of crisis...

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Insuring and financing trade -- Exporting goods to developing countries -- Paris Club debt rescheduling and the hipc initiative -- The cyclical process: the IMF, debt rescheduling and export credits -- Increasing trade during the crisis -- Conclusion -- Index

The IMF, LIDC reform and the post-Washington consensus -- The IMF and LIDCs -- Theorizing post-Washington consensus LIDC reform -- The HIPC and HIPC II initiatives -- 'Pro-poor' concessionary lending : the PRGF -- Deepening the IMF's development model : the ECF, RCF, and SCF reform -- Conclusion

Der Artikel analysiert die Auswirkungen, die ein typisches Stabilisierungsprogramm auf drei wichtige makroökonomische Variablen haben kann: Auf (1) das reale Wirtschaftswachstum; (2) die Inflationsrate und (3) die Leistungsbilanz. Anhand von verschiedenen Modellansätzen werden die Beziehungen...