Watching from the sidelines? The decline of the IMF's crisis management role

Contemporary Politics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 393-409

  Beeson, Mark ^a   Broome, André ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asian crisis; International Monetary Fund; policy surveillance; subprime crisis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050169893     PISSN: 13569775     EISSN: 14693631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13569770802519300     Document Type: Article

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