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

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