The IMF today and tomorrow: Some civil society perspectives

Global Governance

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 351-359

  Griesgraber, Jo Marie ^a   Ugarteche, Oscar ^b  

^a New Rules for Global Finance Coalition

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

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EID: 33845792416     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-01204002     Document Type: Review

References (22)

1. A. Buira, "The Bretton Woods Institutions: Governance Without Legitimacy?" in Buira, ed., Reforming the Governance of the IMF and the World Bank (London: Anthem Press, 2005).
2. Cf. R. Wade, "The US Role in the Long Asian Crisis of 1990-2000," in A. Lukauskis and F. Batista-Rivera, eds., The Political Economy of the East Asian Crisis and Its Aftermath: Tigers in Distress (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001), pp. 195-226.
3. P. Blustein, And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out): Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina (New York: Public Affairs, 2005).
4. Letter to Gordon Brown. 14 April 2006. available at www.iif.com/data/ public/ policyletter_0406.pdf.
5. N. Woods, "The Globalizers in Search of a Future: Four Reasons Why the IMF and the World Bank Must Change, and Four Ways They Can," Center for Global Development Brief, 20 April 2006, p. 2, available at www.cgdev.org/content/ publications/detail/7371.
6. "Review of the 2002 Conditionality Guidelines," International Monetary Fund, Policy Development and Review Department, 3 March 2005, available at www.imf.org/external/np/pp/eng/2005/030305.pdf.
7. See International Monetary Fund, "The Policy Support Instrument, A Factsheet," December 2005, available at www.imf.org/external/np/exr/facts/ psi.htm〉
8. Cf. Contradicting Commitments: How the Achievement of Education for All Is Being Undermined by the International Monetary Fund, Action Aid International, September 2005, at www.actionaidusa.org/pdf/ ContradictingCommit8663C.pdf.
9. See also "A Medium-Term Strategy for the IMF: Meeting the Challenge of Globalization," IMF Issue Brief 06/01, April 2006, at www.imf.org/external/np/exr/ib/2006/ 041806.htm.
10. "The IMF: Shrink It or Sink It: A Consensus Declaration and Strategy Paper," July 24, 2006, drafted in April 2006 by representatives attending the IMF-World Bank Spring meeting, Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC. Available on the Focus on the Global South website at www.focusweb.org/content/ view/ 985/27/.
11. T. D. Adams, "The US View on IMF Reform," presented at the Conference on IMF Reform, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC, 23 September 2005.
12. "IMF to Begin Multilateral Consultations with Focus on Global Imbalances," IMF press release 06/118, 5 June 2006, at www.imf.org/ external/np/sec/pr/ 2006/pr06118.htm.
13. "A Medium-Term Strategy for the IMF."
14. Cf. Buira. Reforming the Governance of the IMF and the World Bank.
15. "Abolish the IMF," Forbes, 2 November 1998.
16. "Who Needs the IMF?" Hoover Digest, no. 2 (1998), at www.hooverdigest.org/982/shultz.html.
17. Oscar Ugarteche, "A New International Financial Architecture: Final Proposal," Pontifica Universidad Cathlica, Peru, 31 March 2005, available at http:// intreg.socioeco.org/en/documents.php.
18. C. Randall Henning, East Asian Financial Corporation, Policy Analyses in International Economics, no. 68 (Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 2002).
19. Asian Development Bank/Asia Recovery Information Centre, "Chiang Mai Initiative (CMI): Current Status and Future Directions," brief, 2003, available at http://aric.adb.org/pdf/cmi_currentstatus.pdf.
20. Remarks by the undersecretary for international affairs of the United States Treasury, Timothy D. Adams, at the World Economic Forum-East Asia Panel on Asia's Financial Integration: A Miracle in the Making? 15 June 2006, at www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/js4323.htm.
21. German Technical Cooperation Office (GTZ), "Financial Globalization and Domestic Regulation and Supervision in Latin America and the Caribbean," project developed for the German Ministry of Development between 2003 and 2006, available at www.gtz.de/en/weltweit/lateinamerika- karibik/14614.htm.
22. For a bibliography of publications elaborating on the reforms listed, see www.new-rules.org.