Author: Vines, David ; & Gilbert, C. L. ; editors:
Title: The IMF and its Critics : Reform of Global Financial Architecture
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004. orig.boards. 24x16cm, xviii,448 pp.. Minor rubbing. Small ink mark to top page-edge. VG. ¶ Contains 15 papers. Includes: 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 with conditional lending; Should the IMF discontinue its long term lending role in developing countries?; The IMF and East Asia: a changing regional financial architecture; 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 21st century: what has been learned? On which values can we establish a humanised globalisation? ["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

Keywords: International Monetary Fund, Financial Crises, Institutions, Global Finance, Economics, , , ,