The IMF and its Critics: Reform of Global Financial Architecture

by Edited by David Vines , Christopher L. Gilbert

• ISBN13: 9780521100502
• ISBN10: 052110050X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-18
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Written by leading economists including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, this collection combines rigorous economic analysis with insider perspectives on key policy debates surrounding the future of the International Monetary Fund. As the role of the IMF and the "Washington Consensus" have come under intense scrutiny, this collection offers a valuable wide-ranging overview of the debate, making it an essential reference for anyone interested in the role of international financial institutions in our globalized economy.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The IMF and international financial architecture: solvency and liquidity

Progress towards greater international financial stability

International coordination of macroeconomic policies: still alive in the new millennium?

The Report of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission: comments on the critics

Reforming the global financial architecture: just tinkering around the edges?

The IMF and capital account liberalisation

How should the IMF view capital controls?

The resolution of international financial crises: an alternative framework

Whose programme is it? Policy ownership and conditional lending

The IMF and East Asia: a changing regional financial architecture

The role of the IMF in developing countries

Argentina and the Fund: anatomy of a policy failure

Countries in payments' difficulties: what can the IMF do?

Accountability, governance and the reform of the IMF

The IMF at the start of the twenty-first century: what has been learned? On which values can we establish a humanised globalisation?

Index

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