This paper describes the functions, policies, and operations of the IMF. The IMF is an independent international organization, and is a cooperative of 185 member countries, whose objective is to ...

In order to ensure proper functioning of the present international monetary system, there is an urgent need for the United States and England to take significant and immediate steps to cure their ...

International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 84, No. 3, Power and Rules in the Changing Economic Order (May, 2008), pp. 455-470 (16 pages) This article examines the ...

Co-Chair of the Banking and Monetary Reform Committee, Kevin McCormick stated, "Using debt as a monetary device to advance sustainability is an inherent contradiction. The environment is not loan ...

Independence has long been a cornerstone of central banking. This is particularly true for the monetary policy function, which is firmly entrenched in central banks’ legislative mandates and practices ...

Tne IMF said even limited fragmentation could shave 0.2% off of global GDP, but said more work was needed to assess the estimated costs to the international monetary system and the global ...

The prototype system covered by the report is designed to perform most of the key technical functions that monetary policy does now to achieve central bank policy goals.

THE TRUMP administration has injected a level of uncertainty into the international monetary system that global investors can no longer ignore. By eroding free trade, shaking global alliances ...