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Business Definition for: IMF

  • International Monetary Fund: the organization that industrialized nations have established to reduce trade barriers and stabilize currencies, especially those of less industrialized nations

Wiktionary Definition for: IMF

  • International Monetary Fund

Additional Resources

QC/instrumentation. (quality control instruments)(Tabular data only) (Illustration)
249 See long distance at a reasonable price. A new IMF Series of microscopes and videoscopes allows continuous focus working distances from 4 1/4 in. to infinity. Available in five models (IMF-2, IMF-3, IMF-4, IMF-5, IMF-10), each has its own magni 249 See long...
Tags: IMF, microscope, quality control
Research articles 1992-09-15
Fixing the IMF - International Monetary Fund
Professors Calomiris and Meltzer have proposed sweeping changes in the IMF and, indeed, in the international monetary system ("Fixing the IMF", Summer 1999). Before commenting on these changes, and to illustrate the complexity of implementing their suggestions, I had occasion recently to discuss with a U.S. Treasury official a very...
Tags: IMF
Research articles 1999-09-22
Does the IMF have a future? - International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund IMF has come under fire from many quarters for its handling of Asia's financial crisis. Asia analysts have become increasingly critical of the Fund's traditional prescriptions for solving economic crises. This month's IMF meetings in Washington did little to persuade many Asian commentators that the right...
Tags: IMF
Research articles 1998-10-19
IMF: Friend or foe?
Before the International Monetary Fund IMF underestimated the cost of bailing out Indonesia, it had been taking the right steps in exterminating the Asian bug that has stung so many economies in the region. But now that the United States is being asked to contribute more to the IMF ($18...
Tags: IMF
Research articles 1998-04-01
Fixing the IMF - reforming the International Monetary Fund
The future role of the International Monetary Fund IMF is today in doubt. Former Treasury Secretaries George Shultz and William Simon have urged that it be closed. President Clinton wants the IMF to devote more attention to preventing crises rather than responding to them. Even the IMF criticized its own...
Tags: IMF
Research articles 1999-06-22
Argentina Discusses Debt With IMF
Argentina's economy chief and top IMF officials had a "very constructive" discussion during a closed-door session on plans to restructure the country's huge debt, a senior IMF official said.
Tags: IMF
Research articles 2004-02-11
How the IMF fixed Zimbabwe
The IMF, same as the other international financial institutions, like to preach good governance, rule of law, uniformity of treatment, respecting the voice of weaker members and consensus building to developing countries. But, gauging from what the IMF has done to Zimbabwe in its years of difficulty, the Bretton Woods...
Tags: IMF
Research articles 2007-08-01
IMF, Brazil agree on revised economic program
WASHINGTON, March 8 Kyodo The International Monetary Fund IMF said Monday it has struck a deal with Brazil on a revised economic reform program, paving the way for the IMF to disburse 4.9 billion dollars in additional funding to the country. The revised program for 1999 to 2001 proposed by...
Tags: IMF
Research articles 1999-03-15
Beyond the IMF Devesh Kapur and Richard Webb
The purpose of this paper is to examine the governmental and market mechanisms that are being developed in the world financial community as ways to complement and substitute for the gap created by IMF deficiencies. This review has two objectives in mind. The first amounts to a stock-taking: an assessment...
Tags: Finance, Financial Accounting, Financial, IMF
White papers 2006-03-01
Harmful effects of IMF aid
ITEM: The International Monetary Fund IMF has agreed to let Colombia increase "its budget shortfall following the defeat of a [sic] austerity referendum," reported the BBC for November 14. "Plans by the government of President Alvaro Uribe to raise taxes sharply were 'appropriate,' the IMF said. The IMF also agreed...
Tags: IMF
Research articles 2003-12-29
Pacting with the enemy; Politics in Brazil.(Brazil's Lula and the IMF)(Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva)(Brief Article)
The opposition and the IMF The opposition and the IMF
Tags: IMF
Research articles 2002-07-13
important role of the IMF, The
What is the International Monetary Fund IMF? It is a cooperative institution that 182 countries have voluntarily joined. Countries join the IMF to maintain a stable system of buying and selling their currencies, so that payments in foreign money can take place smoothly among countries. The IMF lends money to...
Tags: IMF
Research articles 1998-06-01
IMF wants to pave way for Indonesian loans in Dec
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 Kyodo The International Monetary Fund IMF wants to exchange a letter of intent with the Indonesian government by the end of December for the resumption of its loans to the country, an IMF official said Tuesday.
Tags: Digital Equipment Corp., IMF
Research articles 1999-11-22
ZAMBIA: The IMF or the people
As the IMF and World Bank keep moving the goal posts on Zambia's eligibility for further debt relief, the London-based newsletter, Bretton Woods Update, has published this eye-opening report on the extent of Zambia's predicament living under the grip of IMF conditions.
Tags: IMF
Research articles 2004-05-01
IMF to judge new Pakistani gov't before providing loans
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13 Kyodo The International Monetary Fund IMF will evaluate the nature of the new government in Pakistan before further providing loans to the country, IMF External Relations Director Thomas Dawson said Wednesday.
Tags: IMF
Research articles 1999-10-18
Doubts inside the barricades - The IMF; It is not just anti-globalisation protesters who are wondering whether the IMF knows what it is doing.(International Monetary Fund: management of debt in Latin America, and elsewhere)
It is not just anti-globalisation protesters who are wondering whether the IMF knows what it is doing It is not just anti-globalisation protesters who are wondering whether the IMF knows what it is doing
Tags: IMF, protester
Research articles 2002-09-28
Knife-fights; Argentina and the IMF.(Default averted)
Argentine anger at the IMF Argentine anger at the IMF
Tags: Argentine, IMF
Research articles 2004-03-13
Monetary misquotations; IMF quotas.(Reform of IMF quotas)
A long-overdue shake-up at the IMF A long-overdue shake-up at the IMF
Tags: IMF
Research articles 2006-08-26
Thailand must continue financial structure reform
BANGKOK, Jan. 22 Kyodo The International Monetary Fund IMF insisted Friday its strong recommendation to Thailand for financial system structural reform is correct. An IMF official, however, admitted some mistakes in the fund's handling of the Asian financial crisis. ''We have to modify the package, the program but...we would not...
Tags: financial, government, IMF
Research articles 1999-01-25
The International Monetary Fund
THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND IMF, a multilateral lending institution, said Brazil declined to draw down US$1.30 billion from a $40 billion credit facility. The IMF said the decision reflects Brazil's exit strategy from IMF support.
Tags: IMF
Research articles 2005-01-01
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