What is the International Monetary Fund?
September 14, 2006
Summary
An introductory guide to the IMF, its history, and its role in the international financial system. Explains for a general audience the IMF’s lending policies, how decisions are made, and where the money comes from. Gives details of the structure of the IMF, its increasing transparency, how it provides technical assistance to member countries, its role in crisis prevention, and how it is helping the world’s poorest countries. Revised in August 2006.
Subject: Financial crises, Financial institutions, Loans, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction and development, Poverty reduction strategy
Keywords: country, EXRP, findings IMF mangement, Global, government, IMF approval, IMF employee, IMF operation, IMF photograph, IMF reviews national, IMF staff mission, IMF survey, IMF team, IMF's unit of account, lending capacity, Loans, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction and development, Poverty reduction strategy
Pages:
28
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Series:
Pamphlet Series, No.
Stock No:
WIMFEA2006001
ISBN:
9781589065338
ISSN:
0538-8759





