The IMF's principal tasks - guidelines for a reform programme

Abstract: "With the international monetary system dominated by the USA, by the European Monetary Union and Japan, all important decisions on monetary policy will continue to be taken within the G 7 framework. For the foreseeable future the IMF will have to content itself with a role that is essentially geared to ensuring the monetary stabilization of the developing and newly industrializing countries, and especially of the emerging economies. The emphasis here is on four areas of responsibility: Monetary forum: Regardless of the special role played by the G 7, the IMF should be developed into the world's main monetary forum. Only if the newly industrializing and developing countries are appropriately involved in the reform of the international financial architecture can the IMF live up to its claim to universality. In these circumstances, the establishment in the autumn of 1999 of the G 20, in which the leading industrialized and newly industrializing countries are represented, counteracts t

Object Details

• Alternative title: Die zentralen Aufgaben des IWF - Leitlinien für ein Reformprogramm
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 4 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Briefing Paper ; Bd. 5/2000

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2000
• Creator: Radke, Detlef
• Contributor: Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik gGmbH

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-194645
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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