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International Financial Institutions Research Site - http://www.wellesley.edu/Economics/IFI
Lists of research materials on international financial institutions, particularly the IMF and the World Bank. |
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Hoover Institution - Public Policy Inquiry: International Monetary Fund - http://www.imfsite.org/default.htm
Provides facts, policies, research and perspectives on the IMF from the conservative and libertarian think tank at Stanford University. |
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IMF and Structural Adjustment Policies - http://www.globalissues.org/article/3/structural-adjustment-a-major-cause-of-poverty
The IMF and World Bank structural adjustment policies have led to a spiraling race to the bottom for the developing countries that have followed their prescriptions, which require cutbacks on health, education and so on. Poverty as a result has soared. |
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Asking the Right Questions About the IMF - http://minneapolisfed.org/pubs/ar/1998/ar1998.cfm
The authors of this essay argue that the issue is not so much what the IMF should do, but what needs to be done and who can best do the job. |
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Debt And Dependency Are The IMF Legacy - http://www.cato.org/dailys/4-23-98.html
Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute says that the IMF has failed to promote self-sustaining economic growth anywhere in the world. Instead, it has left debt and dependency in its wake. |