A recent paper from the IMF on financial integration may turn out to be a pleasant surprise for its critics.
Finance
Finance
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Report condemns IMF ability to anticipate and prevent crises
A US Government Accounting Office (GAO) report finds serious shortcomings to recent IMF efforts to improve its capacity to predict and prevent financial crises, which is at the core of its mandate.
Conditionality
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Circling the wagons: World Bank-IMF-WTO coherence
The heads of the World Bank and IMF spoke to the General Council - the highest-level decision-making body of the World Trade Organisation - on 13 May on the benefits of increasing coherence between their respective agencies. Civil society groups counter that the use of the word 'coherence' is a ruse designed to bring countries in line with a set of flawed economic policies.
Conditionality
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IMF paper on NEPAD
A new IMF working paper on the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), calls the agreement "visionary".
Accountability
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“Parliamentary Front” on IFIs
Members of the Brazilian parliament have called on their colleagues to form a parliamentary front on IFIs and the national banking system.
Conditionality
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Debt relief money diverted in Nicaragua
A new report shows that debt relief in Nicaragua is only partly going to poverty reduction.
Conditionality
Analysis
Comments on ‘IMF Staff Note on Macroeconomic Programming for Poverty Reduction’
Civil society commentary on the 'IMF Staff Note on Macroeconomic Programming for Poverty Reduction'
Rights
News
IMF debt plan controversial
Hopes are fading at the IMF for its proposal of a mechanism to restructure poor countries debt as opposition mounts.
Finance
News
IMF: liberalisation may hurt poor
An IMF paper co-authored by its Chief Economist Ken Rogoff warns against the effects of financial liberalisation for poor countries.
Finance
News
Bank hypocrisy over Nestlé claim
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