IMF Programmes in Developing Countries: Design and Impact (Development Policy Studies)

✍ Scribed by Tony Killick

Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 225
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The International Monetary Fund is the centre of a global financial system that encourages budgetary discipline and full integration into world trade to facilitate development and alleviate poverty. Yet this policy 'conditionality' of the IMF is highly controversial. Critics state that fifty years of IMF existence has been 'fifty years too long', and that its doctrinaire policy must change or Fund programmes will have only limited ability to achieve their objectives. This book examines the arguments, tracing the extent of Fund adaptation, presenting major new evidence on the consequences of Fund programmes, and considering its future role.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of tables......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
List of abbreviations......Page 12
STARTING POINTS......Page 14
CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN IMF PROGRAMME DESIGN, 1982 92......Page 25
PROGRAMME EFFECTS: What can we know?......Page 49
ISSUES IN THE DESIGN OF IMF PROGRAMMES......Page 142
CONCLUSION: Is fifty years enough?......Page 169
Notes......Page 197
Bibliography......Page 207
Index......Page 216

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