Finance and debtBank and Fund involvement in financing development and debt creation. The role of World Bank aid and lending in development and reconstruction projects as well as a focus on the Funds' role in the international financial architecture and financial sector reform in borrower countries. Includes: Development finance, capital account liberalisation and capital controls, financial sector reform, International financial architecture, debt and debt arbitration, Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative (HIPC), crisis prevention and resolution read more background... Items 1 to 10 of 559IMF in a euromess?The IMF responds to calls from European leaders to get more involved in the European debt crisis through greater lending to the region, however, the austerity policies being demanded are stoking further criticism from civil society organisations. read article... Breaking the Mould How Latin America is coping with volatile capital flowsArgentina, Brazil and Costa Rica are among the countries that have recently implemented capital account regulations. This report reviews the evidence available on the impact of their measures, providing evidence of the usefulness of capital account regulations not only in achieving financial stability but also in preventing unwarranted appreciation of the exchange rate and increasing monetary policy space. read article... Time for a new consensus Regulating financial flows for stability and development
This report explains the drawbacks, especially for development, of policies to deregulate the movement of money across borders, and makes suggestions for a new pragmatic approach to regulation of financial flows to ensure stability and development. read article... IMF's focus on austerity proved "wrong, wrong, wrong", say criticsWhile Christine Lagarde and staff at the Fund begin to acknowledge that too much austerity is risking jobs and growth and civil society groups call for an end to IFIs policy conditions, IMF programmes continue to promote fiscal retrenchment. read article... IFIs admit failure to put jobs at the centreWhile the International Labour Organization (ILO) warns of social unrest coming from record unemployment, the IMF and World Bank are being criticised for hindering workers rights and not putting jobs at the centre of recovery. read article... IMF still divided on gold sales windfallThe executive board of the IMF continued to disagree, in an early September discussion, on what to do with the $2.76 billion windfall profits from its 2009-10 gold sales. read article... IFIs macroeconomic policy "anti-growth""Why have the policy tutors performed so miserably and the pupils so brilliantly?", wondered Professor John Weeks of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in an October article for Social Europe Journal. read article... Beyond repair? Bank lobbies for carbon marketsAs the UN climate summit in South Africa looms large, the World Bank is lobbying G20 countries to resuscitate shrinking carbon markets through controversial new measures, including using public climate finance to stimulate demand and integrating soil and forest carbon into market mechanisms. read article... Inflation "obsession" hurting Kenyan growthConstraints placed on the Central Bank of Kenya's monetary policy by the IMF have been condemned as damaging to Kenya's growth. read article... Little currency for global money?While the G20 postponed decisions on issuing new special drawing rights (SDRs), the IMF-managed international reserve asset, the IMF completed its surveillance review and a new Fund report tackled the thorny issue of global imbalances. read article... |
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Time for a new consensus: Regulating financial flows for stability and development 15 December 2011
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The IMF's new conditionality: Crafting change, lessons from Eastern Europe 18 February 2011
Adjusting foreign investment: Capital account policy for sustainable growth and international development 29 September 2010
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