Controlling the World Bank and IMF

Controlling the World Bank and IMF
Author: Liam Clegg
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2013-06-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781137274540

With the concessional lending operations of the World Bank and IMF having expanded dramatically in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, Liam Clegg provides a timely analysis of the institutional dynamics shaping this aspect of the institutions' operations. Drawn from staffs' own understandings of their operational environments, the volume explores the dynamics of power surrounding these activities. As shareholder states continue to push the institutions to demonstrate their effective contribution to global poverty reduction, they alter the opportunities available for a range of stakeholders to shape operational practice in these key arenas of global economic governance. By demonstrating that current developments are serving to tilt the balance in the 'asymmetric accommodation' between shareholders and stakeholders towards the former, the author highlights some of the most controversial areas of World Bank and IMF operations.

Reforming the Governance of the IMF and the World Bank

Reforming the Governance of the IMF and the World Bank
Author: Ariel Buira
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2005-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857288180

The papers included in this book cover different aspects of the governance of the Bretton Woods institutions. They explore different options for reform and show that enhancing the participation of developing and emerging market countries in resolving the major monetary and financial problems confronting the world economy, would improve global economic performance and contribute to the elimination of world poverty.

Enhancing Collaboration - Joint Management Action Plan

Enhancing Collaboration - Joint Management Action Plan
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2007-09-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 149833332X

In March 2006, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the President of the World Bank commissioned the External Review Committee on IMF-World Bank Collaboration to look at the status of institutional collaboration and provide suggestions for improvement. The Committee’s report, released in February 2007, called for the strengthening of the culture of collaboration in the two institutions, and made a number of specific proposals in that direction. The Joint Management Action Plan (JMAP) was prepared against this background, and the actions agreed between Bank and Fund managements in the JMAP are scheduled to be presented in informal Board meetings in early October. The JMAP will be launched immediately after the Annual Meetings. The goal is for most new systems to be operational in time for the preparation of FY09 budgets.

Controlling the World Bank and IMF

Controlling the World Bank and IMF
Author: Liam Clegg
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2013-06-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137274557

Liam Clegg provides an innovative reading of where power lies in the institutions' concessional lending operations, drawing its focus on shareholders and stakeholders from staffs' own understandings of their operational environments.

Renegotiating the World Order

Renegotiating the World Order
Author: Phillip Y. Lipscy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2017-06-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107149762

Phillip Y. Lipscy explains how countries renegotiate international institutions when rising powers such as Japan and China challenge the existing order. This book is particularly relevant for those interested in topics such as international organizations, such as United Nations, IMF, and World Bank, political economy, international security, US diplomacy, Chinese diplomacy, and Japanese diplomacy.

2018 Review of Program Design and Conditionality

2018 Review of Program Design and Conditionality
Author: International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, & Review Department
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2019-05-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498315712

The 2018 Review of Program Design and Conditionality is the first comprehensive stocktaking of Fund lending operations since the global financial crisis. The review assesses program performance between September 2011 and end-2017. Programs during this period were defined by the protracted structural challenges faced by members and hampered by the persistently weak global environment.

The IMF and the Silent Revolution

The IMF and the Silent Revolution
Author: Mr.James M. Boughton
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2000-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781557759702

This pamphlet is adapted from Chapter 1 of Silent Revolution: The International Monetary Fund, 1979-89, by the same author. That book is full of history of the evolution of the Fund during 11 years in which the institution truly came of age as a participant in the international financial system.

Challenges to the World Bank and IMF

Challenges to the World Bank and IMF
Author: Ariel Buira
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2003-06-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857287540

Bringing together some of the foremost authorities in their fields, this book is the result of work carried out on behalf of the G24, the world's only research effort devoting to furthering the interests of developing countries and bringing their needs to global attention. The book gives a voice to the developing nations of the world through its powerful essays and its fresh perspective.

The Globalizers

The Globalizers
Author: Ngaire Woods
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2006
Genre: Debts, External
ISBN: 9780801444241

Financial Sector Crisis and Restructuring

Financial Sector Crisis and Restructuring
Author: Carl-Johan Lindgren
Publisher:
Total Pages: 103
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781557758712

An IMF paper reviewing the policy responses of Indonesia, Korea and Thailand to the 1997 Asian crisis, comparing the actions of these three countries with those of Malaysia and the Philippines. Although all judgements are still tentative, important lessons can be learned from the experiences of the last two years.