International Monetary Fund (IMF)
IMF promises more efforts on crisis prevention
IMF ANNUAL REPORT 2001 - International Monetary Fund Managing Director Horst Koehler yesterday, Wednesday, reiterated that the international lender will focus more in the coming months and years on preventing economic crises.
IMF new lending rises slightly
IMF ANNUAL REPORT 2001 - Lending by the International Monetary Fund in its financial year 2001 to last April increased slightly, reflecting additional loans to Argentina and Turkey to assist their economic reform.
Embracing change, IMF looks for shareholder reform
IMF ANNUAL REPORT 2001 - The International Monetary Fund yesterday, 20 September, issued its annual report for 2001, highlighting its progress in implementing reforms and urging its members - particularly the advanced economies - to do the same.
IMF Statement on US tragic events
IMF Statement on Tragic Events in the United States, 12 September
Farewell to the IMF Executive Board - Fischer
SPEECH - Stanley Fischer, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, 30 August.
Horst Kohler at Stanley Fischer’s leaving dinner
SPEECH - Dinner in Honour of Stanley Fischer. Remarks by Horst Kohler, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund 29 August.
Philippines: Preparations for Inflation Targeting
WORKING PAPER - IMF Working Paper written by Piyabha Kongsamut and published August 2001.
Two monetary approaches to the balance of payments
WORKING PAPER - IMF Working Paper written by Jacques J Polak and published August 2001. The two monetary approaches to the balance of payments: Keynesian and Johnsonian.
Big bang or gradualism in economic reforms
WORKING PAPER - IMF Working Paper written by Andrew Feltenstein and Saleh M Nsouli published August 2001. "Big Bang" Versus Gradualism in Economic Reforms: An Intertemporal Analysis with an Application to China.
Japan seeks compromise on IMF assessors
JAPAN - Japan has sought to defuse a looming row with the International Monetary Fund, having previously hinted that it might block an IMF assessment of its financial system.
Stanley Fischer - Farewell Dinner Speech
SPEECH - A speech by Stanley Fischer, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund on 29 August. Stanley Fischer is leaving the IMF after seven years.
IMF to cut global forecasts
US - The IMF has cut its forecast for world economic growth this year to 2.8% from 3.2%, Reuters reported on 29 August citing unnamed sources at the international lender.
IMF says cash to reserves, Argentina decides use
ARGENTINA - The International Monetary Fund reiterated on 22 August that the money Argentina will receive under its new $8 billion program will go to central bank reserves, but it is then up to the country to decide how to use it.
IMF agrees extra cash for Argentina
ARGENTINA - After 12 tense days of talks, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) agreed to increase its funding to crisis-hit Argentina by $8bn.
Back to Bretton Woods
UK - The anti-globalisation protesters have a point, argues Felix Rohatyn a former US ambassador to France, in the London edition of the Financial Times, 20 August. It is time to reform the IMF and World Bank, he says.
Asian Monetary Fund not a bad idea - US official
USA - The administration of President George W. Bush would support the future establishment of an Asian IMF, a senior U.S. official said today, 17 August.
Thailand rejects IMF interest rate advice
THAILAND - Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on 17 August rebuffed an IMF suggestion that Thailand should not rule out cutting interest rates, saying rates were already low enough despite the need to boost the faltering economy.
Kenya unable to pass anticorruption legislation
US - The United States regrets Kenya was unable to pass an anticorruption bill to pave the way for receiving International Monetary Fund (IMF) aid and restarting an economy in its worst shape since the 1960s, the State Department said yesterday, 15…
IMF Press Release
USA - World Bank Group and IMF set meetings for 29-30 September 2001.
Anti-globalisation protest IMF/World Bank meeting
US - Nationwide planning by anti-globalisation protesters from across the US is intensifying and becoming increasingly sophisticated in advance of next month's meetings in Washington of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, reports the…
Bush keeps 'open mind' on Argentina
US - Talks between Argentina, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the US Treasury continued on 13 August, as the country sought extra money to help ease its financial crisis.
Warning by IMF puts BoJ under pressure
JAPAN - Pressure on the Bank of Japan to ease monetary policy at its two-day meeting that starts today has been increased considerably by the International Monetary Fund's reversal of an earlier growth forecast and its warning that Japan would enter a…
World Bank-IMF annual meet curtailed
US - The 2001 annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which were scheduled to be held in Washington between 27 September and 3 October, have been curtailed and will now be held for just two days, 29 September and 30.
Argentine contagion has not spread far says IMF
ARGENTINA - Financial distress in Argentina and Turkey has failed to spread to emerging markets in general despite a bleak outlook for investors, according to the International Monetary Fund, reports the Financial Times, London, 9 August.