Monetary system

Finance

News

The rise of bilateral currency swaps - a threat to the IMF?

Without reforming SDRs to boost reserves and stabilise economies, bilateral swaps will further reinforce the existing asymmetries of the international financial system.

13 December 2023

Finance

Analysis

Monetary power and sovereign debt crises: The renewed case for a sovereign debt restructuring mechanism

The sovereign debt crises threatening states in the Global South are less about fiscal mismanagement and more about monetary power in the global currency hierarchy.

4 October 2022 | At Issue

Finance

News

IMF takes steps to control cryptocurrency policies

Fund warns cryptocurrencies are a threat to global financial stability as El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender.

9 December 2021

Finance

Background

Financial tremors in developing countries: is another earthquake on the way?

Aldo Caliari Monetary policy changes in rich world are now starting – the reversal of…

11 April 2014

Finance

Analysis

Democratic deficit: The IMF, Ecuador, and central bank independence

IMF's continued push for central bank independence criticised as undemocratic, unequal and for curtailing countries' capacity to respond to the pandemic.

13 July 2021

Finance

News

IMF to add China’s currency to SDR basket

The IMF has confirmed that China’s currency, the remnimbi or yuan, will be included in the IMF’s calculation of its international reserve asset from October 2016.

8 February 2016

Finance

Analysis

UN Financing for Development: the Fund and Bank's role & influence

This briefing analyses the role of the Bank and Fund in the UN Financing for Development negotiations.

3 July 2015 | At Issue

Finance

Analysis

The IFIs in 2013: year in review

The Bretton Woods Project review of the most important developments at the World Bank and IMF in 2013.

8 January 2014 | Review