IMF Home page with links to News, About the IMF, Fund Rates, IMF Publications, What's New, Standards and Codes, Country Information and featured topics ...

Economic information and statistical indices for selected countries.

Welcome to the Joint Bank-Fund Library Network. These fourteen World Bank and International Monetary Fund libraries work together to provide information services and resources to World Bank and IMF staff. We hope this site will help answer your questions about publicly available library resources.

International Monetary Fund: Facts, policies, research and perspectives on the IMF.

This part of the globalissues.org web site looks into the effectiveness of the IMF-imposed Structural Adjustment Policies and how this has exacerbated poverty.

April 23, 1998 Debt And Dependency Are The IMF Legacy by Doug Bandow Doug Bandow is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and an editor of Perpetuating Poverty: The World bank and the IMF Today the most important player in the Indonesian financial crisis -- the US Congress -- will vote on the Clinton Administration's plea for $US18 billion ($27.5 billion) in new funds for the IMF. The Congress ...

IMF'S FOUR STEPS TO DAMNATION How crises, failures, and suffering finally drove a Presidential adviser to the wrong side of the barricades By Gregory Palast It was like a scene out of Le Carre: the brilliant agent comes in from the cold and, in hours of debriefing, empties his memory of horrors committed in the name of an ideology gone rotten. But this was a far bigger catch than some used-up ...

An IMF staff team annually visits each country, collects economic and financial information, and discusses with officials the country's economic developments and policies. On return to headquarters, the staff prepares a report, which forms the basis for discussion by the Executive Board.

IMF at a Glance, Statutory Purpose, How the IMF Came About, Training and Technical Assistance, IMF Statistical Activities.