Pamphlet Series

What is the International Monetary Fund?

Publication Date:

September 14, 2006

Electronic Access:

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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.

Series:

Pamphlet Series, No.

Subject:

Financial crises Financial institutions Loans Poverty Poverty reduction Poverty reduction and development Poverty reduction strategy

Notes:

July 2004 Version also availabe online in Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, Russian, Spanish, Thai

Frequency:

occasional