As European elections show the public increasingly rejecting austerity, critics call on the IMF to focus on the flaws of the eurozone rather than austerity in country programmes.
Macroeconomic policy
Conditionality
News
IMF and debt hold Jamaica back
A report published in May by the US-based Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) found that an overwhelming debt burden and conditions on IMF loans are hindering Jamaica's economic recovery.
IFI governance
News
IMF surveillance not yet integrated
IMF integrated surveillance decision delayed.
Finance
News
Will the IMF "make history" with a new view on capital flows?
In October the Fund is expected to present in October an updated institutional view on capital account regulations. The most recent IMF paper on the topic received criticism for advocating for capital account liberalisation in China and India. Meanwhile emerging economies worry that the Fund's prescriptions still constrain their capacity to cope with global financial volatility.
Conditionality
Background
A Global Shared Societies Agenda
Minutes meeting for A Global Shared Societies Agenda
Finance
Background
How can the IMF enhance its focus on growth and poverty reduction in LICS?
A civil society meeting held at the World Bank and the IMF hold their 2012 spring meetings in Washington DC on Friday 20th April.
IFI governance
Background
Seminar - Time for a New Consensus: Regulating Financial Flows for Stability and Development
As the World Bank and the IMF hold their 2012 spring meetings in Washington DC this week, Latindadd and the Bretton Woods Project organised a seminar about regulating financial flows on Thursday 19 April.
Finance
Background
Regulating Global Capital Flows for Development
Seminar at the Brookings Institution on capital flows regulations - 19 April
Accountability
Background
UK civil society meeting UK IMF Executive Director Alex Gibbs
Notes of a meeting with UK executive director to the IMF Alex Gibbs in April 2012
Accountability
News
IEG finds World Bank not well adapted to crisis lending
The final report of the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group's (IEG, the Bank's arms-length evaluation unit) assessment of the Bank's response to the 2008/09 global economic crisis confirms that Bank measures followed pre-crisis patterns and often failed to reach those most affected, leaving the Bank vulnerable to future crises.
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