What is the International Monetary Fund?

September 14, 2006

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International Monetary Fund. What is the International Monetary Fund?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed November 21, 2024, https://0-doi-org.library.svsu.edu/10.5089/9781589065338.054

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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.

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

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Pages:

28
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DOI:

https://0-doi-org.library.svsu.edu/10.5089/9781589065338.054
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Pamphlet Series, No.
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WIMFEA2006001
ISBN:

9781589065338
ISSN:

0538-8759

Notes

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

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