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The IMF and Human Development: A Dialogue with Civil Society

ByMichel Camdessus

March 6, 2000

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Michel Camdessus. The IMF and Human Development: A Dialogue with Civil Society, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed 12/23/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557758903.054

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Summary

During his tenure as Managing Director of the IMF, and in his interactions with civil society, Michel Camdessus was asked many questions related to the IMF's role in development. This pamphlet collects questions frequently asked by civil society around the world and the responses given by Mr. Camdessus that help to clarify the IMF position on human development.

Subject: Civil society, Economic sectors, Education, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction and development, Poverty reduction strategy

Keywords: Africa, Civil society, country, creditor country government, debt relief, development priority, economic growth, government, HIPC country, IMF assessment, IMF assessments of growth, IMF of a country's improvement, IMF policy advice, IMF study, IMF support, international community, MTU, Poverty reduction, Poverty reduction and development, Poverty reduction strategy, spending