Influencing the IMF

Critical Mass: The Emergence of Global Civil Society

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 153-168

  Griesgraber, Jo Marie ^a  

^a New Rules for Global Finance Coalition   (United States)

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1. For more information, read any of several papers by Ariel Buira on the G24 website: http://www.g24.org.
2. See the websites of Jubilee USA Network (http://www.jubileeusa.org) and 50 Years Is Enough (http://50years.org) for material describing these policies
3. For a description of the "post-Washington consensus," refer to the websites of New Rules for Global Finance Coalition (http://www.new-rules.org) and the Center for Global Development (http://www.cgdev.org).
4. Analyses of the causes of the debt can be found at the Center of Concern website (http://www.coc.org) as well as Jubilee USA Network (www.jubileeusa.org).
5. see works by Oscar Ugarteche, notably El estado deudor: Economia politica de la deuda, Peru y Bolivia, 1968-1984
6. El falso dilema: América Latina en la economía global (Lima: Fundación Friedrich Ebert, 1996)
7. The Moral Imperatives Statement was written and disseminated in May 1997 by the Religious Working Group (RWG) on World Bank and IMF: http://www.sedos.org/english/maryknol.htm.
8. "Beyond the IMF," Devesh Kapur and Richard Webb, http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/10246/.
9. http://www.imf.org/external/spring/2001/imfc/select.htm.
10. "IMF Executive Director Shaalan Nominates Three Candidates for the Post of Managing Director of the IMF," IMF Press Release no. 04/65, March 31, 2004.
11. http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2004/pr0465.htm.
12. The Financial Policy Forum website (http://www.financialpolicy.org) documents many of these activities.
13. http://www.imf.org/external/np/ed/md/2000/index.htm.
14. http://www.financialpolicy.org.
15. http://www.actionaidusa.org/pdf/actionaid_intl_2006_annual_report.pdf.
16. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/18/washington/18wolfowitz.html?ei=5088&en=d403cde0a64042d9&ex=1337140800&adxnnl=1&partner=&adxnnlx=1186412857-lCP3fQhjATkDyp+Vduhe7A
17. "Press Release: IMF Executive Board Moves Ahead with Process of Selecting the Fund's Next Managing Director," http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pr/2007/pr07159.htm.
18. Independent Evaluation Office, International Monetary Fund, "Evaluation of the Prolonged Use of Fund Resources," September 25, 2002, http://www.ieo-imf.org/eval/complete/eval_09252002.html.
19. The single best public source for information about the "Shrink or Sink" campaign against the IMF is the 50 Years Is Enough website. See for example: http://www.50years.org/cms/updates/story/325.
20. See the Crockett Report on the IMF's website. www.imf.org/external/np/tr/2007/tr070131.htm.
21. see Jo Marie Griesgraber and Oscar Ugarteche, "The IMF Today and Tomorrow: Some Civil Society Perspectives," Global Governance 12 (2006): 351-59.
22. "Bridging the democratic deficit. Double majority decision making and the IMF," Peter Chowla, Jeffrey Oatham and Claire Wren., Bretton Woods Project, UK, 2 February 2007.
23. http://www.brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=549743.
24. Report with recommendations and list of Panel Members can be found at www.new-rules.org/docs/imfreform/imfaccountability041007.htm.