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Finance & Development June 1, 2001 Timothy Lane & Steven Phillips |
IMF Financing and Moral Hazard Although it has been argued that IMF financing may create moral hazard, it is not easy to find clear evidence of such an effect. If the extent of IMF-induced moral hazard were known, any costs would have to be weighed against the possible benefits of IMF financing... |
Finance & Development December 1, 2002 |
Letters to the Editor The VAT in practice... Moral hazard: fact or fiction?... |
Finance & Development June 1, 2001 Gabrielle Lipworth & Jens Nystedt |
Crisis Resolution and Private Sector Adaptation The effect on existing debt of recent restructurings and rollovers is somewhat ambiguous and depends on whether positive news about individual instruments' recovery values outweighs negative news about the costs of default on them... |
Finance & Development March 1, 2000 James M. Boughton |
Michel Camdessus at the IMF: A Retrospective It may be some years until a definitive assessment of Michel Camdessus's unprecedented 13 years as Managing Director can be made. In this article, the IMF's Historian provides a preliminary evaluation. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2002 Inutu Lukonga |
Riding Out the Storm Dealing with financial crises more effectively |
Finance & Development December 1, 2001 |
New Book Features IMF's Role in Combating the Global Debt Crisis James M. Boughton's book Silent Revolution: The International Monetary Fund, 1979-1989. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2002 Christian Mulder |
Assessing the Dangers Spotting vulnerability to financial risks is key to preventing crises. |
BusinessWeek October 8, 2009 Simon Johnson |
An IMF Just for Emerging Markets Developing countries don't trust the fund to serve their interests. Solution: An EMF. |
Finance & Development June 2009 John Lipsky |
Preparing for a Postcrisis World Assessing the IMF's role in the future international financial architecture |
Finance & Development June 1, 2001 |
Bulletin IMFC Meeting Endorses IMF Crisis Prevention Efforts... IMF in the process of change... The IMF's Role in Poverty Reduction... IMF Acts to Streamline and Focus Conditionality... |
Finance & Development June 1, 2002 Mohsin S. Khan & Sunil Sharma |
Reconciling Conditionality and Country Ownership For the international community, one of the biggest challenges is how to reconcile the need for more country ownership of adjustment and reform programs with the need for conditions on IMF loans. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2002 Christina Daseking |
Debt: How Much Is Too Much? As part of the work on vulnerability indicators, economists are looking at what level of debt is sustainable for an economy and how much is too much. |
BusinessWeek September 27, 2004 Rich Miller |
A To-Do List For The IMF For starters, get tough on rich nations and give Asia a greater say. The trouble, experts say, is that the IMF's influence with industrial nations is basically limited to jawboning. |
Finance & Development September 2009 Edward Gemayel & Samar Maziad |
Delivering on Change The IMF has created a new support framework for the world's low-income countries. |
BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 Christopher Power |
Strange Encounter: The IMF and Athens Former International Monetary Fund officers say what they would do if they were put in charge of the Greek problem. |
Reason March 2009 Veronique de Rugy |
Dissatisfaction Guaranteed The government has decided to encourage more lenders to take more chances by guaranteeing yet more loans to high-risk borrowers. The only guarantee for these loans is that our children will be paying billions to cover the losses. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2002 James M. Boughton |
Globalization and the Silent Revolution of the 1980s During the 1980s, the economic policymakers of many countries underwent a dramatic change in thinking. How beneficial has this 'silent revolution' been, and what can policymakers and the international community do now to broaden and secure the gains it has brought? |
Finance & Development December 1, 2001 Ahmed, Lane & Schulze-Ghattas |
Refocusing IMF Conditionality Shortly after he assumed office as Managing Director of the IMF in May 2000, Horst Kohler launched a reform of the conditionality associated with its lending. What lies behind this change in approach, and what prospects does it have for strengthening implementation of reforms in the IMF's member countries? |
Finance & Development December 1, 2002 Goldsbrough et al. |
Prolonged Use of IMF Loans How much of a problem is it? |
Finance & Development September 1, 2001 James M. Boughton |
Was Suez in 1956 the First Financial Crisis of the Twenty-First Century? The IMF's lending to the four countries directly involved in the 1956 Suez crisis, and particularly to the United Kingdom, raised the institution's profile and established its role in helping member countries cope with international financial crises... |
Finance & Development December 1, 2001 |
Bulletin Kohler Calls For Coordinated International Response in Wake of September 11 Attacks... IMF Releases Reduced World Economic Outlook Projections... External Financing for IMF Technical Assistance... |
Finance & Development March 1, 2002 Haizhou Huang & S. Kal Wajid |
Financial Stability in the World of Global Finance To reduce their vulnerability to national and international financial crises, countries must address the weaknesses in their financial systems... |
Finance & Development September 1, 2007 Cottarelli & Mateos y Lago |
Helping the Global Economy Stay in Shape The IMF adopts a new framework for monitoring countries' economic performance. |
Finance & Development June 1, 2005 |
Book Reviews Bailouts or Bail-Ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Economies by Nouriel Roubini and Brad Setser... The Euro and Its Central Bank: Getting United After the Union by Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa... |
Knowledge@Wharton |
Economist Joseph Stiglitz and His Discontents In a timely book, issued in a period when protests against the process of globalization continue to spread across the globe, and Stiglitz musters some impressive ammunition for his indictment of the IMF. But his salvo may mask some gaps in his reasoning. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2002 Kenneth S. Rogoff |
Straight Talk Rethinking capital controls: When should we keep an open mind? |
Finance & Development March 1, 2001 |
Bulletin The Asian Crisis Four Years On... The New Basel Capital Proposal for Banks... IMF Reviews Financial Sector Assessment Program... etc. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2006 Ambroise Fayolle |
Out of the Trap Given that fragile states face urgent and specific needs, the framework created by donors to support them is both too slow and not comprehensive enough. Closer coordination between all actors, including the IMF, should be a priority in fragile states. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2000 Robert Powell |
Debt Relief for Poor Countries Efforts to lighten the debt burden of poor countries go back at least two decades. The most recent, the enhanced HIPC Initiative, will provide faster and deeper debt relief to these countries while encouraging them to use the funds saved to fight poverty and raise living standards. |
Finance & Development June 2010 Cartas & McConagha |
Credit to the Private Sector Remains Weak Bank credit continues to fall despite the global recovery. |
Finance & Development September 2008 |
Book Reviews Michael Tomz takes a look at the history of debt default in his latest book... Douglas Wass brings back unhappy memories in the his latest book The Making of British Macro-Economic Policy and the 1976 IMF Crisis... etc. |
Finance & Development June 1, 2005 dos Santos |
Brazil's Remarkable Journey Latin America's largest economy is finally reaping the benefits of reforms. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2000 |
Bulletin Pressing Issues of Globalization and Poverty Reduction Are Focus of 2000 IMF--World Bank Annual Meetings... Horst Kohler's Vision for the IMF... Research at the IMF... |
Finance & Development June 2010 |
Min Zhu on Asia's Economy and More A conversation with the special advisor to the IMF's managing director about Asia in the new world order, global economic issues, and the IMF's relations with the region that is favored to lead the world out of crisis. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2008 Charles Collyns |
The Crisis through the Lens of History The current financial crisis is ferocious, but looking at history shows the way to avoid another Great Depression. |
Finance & Development December 2011 Nozaki et al. |
Are the Critics Right? A new study finds that public education and health spending get a boost when low-income countries receive IMF financial support |
Finance & Development June 1, 2006 Burton et al. |
Asia's Winds of Change The path that Asian countries have traveled to growth and prosperity in the past 50 years will remain relevant for the future -- the embrace of openness, the commitment to macroeconomic stability, and the drive to adapt and reform in response to changing circumstances. |
On Wall Street June 1, 2009 Yarek Aranowicz |
All Disquieting on the Eastern Front The contagion in Central and Eastern Europe has been called the worst economic crisis since the collapse of communism. |
Finance & Development March 2009 Brad Setser |
The Shape of Things to Come Individual national decisions, not international summits, will remake the global financial system. |
Finance & Development March 2009 Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz |
Data to the Rescue Why improved statistical information will be key for prevention of future crises. |
Finance & Development December 1, 2002 Keller et al. |
The Bottom Line Weaknesses in public and private sector balance sheets could be the sign of a crisis in the making. |
Finance & Development September 1, 2000 Mary Locke |
Funding the IMF: The Debate in the U.S. Congress It has been said that the U.S. Congress works in mysterious ways. During the 1997-98 debate on increasing funding for the IMF, some supporters of the IMF viewed the increasingly intense debate with foreboding. So how was it that full funding was ultimately approved? |
Finance & Development June 1, 2000 Mohamed A. El-Erian |
Where Are Emerging Markets Headed? The emerging markets look very different in early 2000. Growth is picking up in most economies, with countries like Brazil also making remarkable financial recoveries and Mexico just being upgraded by Moody's to the much-coveted investment rating. |
Finance & Development December 2008 |
IMF News IMF's new liquidity facility... IMF revamps two-year-old Exogenous Shocks Facility... IMF moved quickly to help emerging markets battered by the fallout from global financial turmoil... IMF-sponsored conference in Tanzania... |
BusinessWeek May 12, 2010 Sandrine Rastello et al. |
Now It's Up to the IMF to Make Greece Shape Up The fate of the euro may depend on the IMF's awkward partnership with the EU. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2001 |
Book reviews Robert Solomon's Money on the Move: The Revolution in International Finance Since 1980... Distributive Justice and Economic Development: The Case of Chile and Developing Countries... Ruth de Krivoy's Collapse: The Venezuelan Banking Crisis of '94... etc. |
Finance & Development June 2007 Un-Chan Chung |
Korea: In Search of a New Compact Although it will take a long process of trial and error to build a well-balanced economy supported by an overarching set of accepted economic and social norms, Korea's political leadership can do a lot to improve things in the meantime. |
U.S. Banker June 2010 Robert Bliss |
It's the Interconnectedness, Stupid The IMF s reform ideas contained in its Global Financial Stability report evaluate the complexities of international risk that U.S. regulatory proposals ignore. |
Finance & Development March 1, 2003 |
Letters to the Editor Poverty debate... IMF loans to autocratic regimes... Measuring potential debt... Odious debt... etc. |
Finance & Development September 2009 |
In Brief World economic news: Increasing global liquidity... World hunger at historic highs... Mobile phone use worldwide... IMF blog... Economic events and calendar... |