1st Edition

IMF Programmes in Developing Countries Design and Impact

By Tony Killick Copyright 1995
228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
1. Starting Points Appendix: The Facilities of the IMF 2. Continuity and Change in IMF Programme Design, 1982-92 3. Programme Effects: What Can We Know? 4.Issues in the Design of IMF Programmes 5. Conclusion: Is Fifty Years Enough?

Biography

Tony Killick