Download or read book Civil Society Voices and the International Monetary Fund written by Jan Aart Scholte and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2002 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Civil Society Voices and the International Monetary Fund written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hence, the challenge is to maximize the positive potentials and minimize the negative possibilities.5 4 The IMF: An Overview of a Global Governance Institution Before mapping and assessing civil society engagement of the IMF, some contextual remarks about the nature of the institution are in order.6 Indeed, a number of civil society initiatives regarding the Fund have suffered from insufficient un. [...] Thus the ED for the USA currently counts for 17.35 per cent of any vote, while the ED for 23 Francophone African states carries only 1.17 per cent of the decision.18 The Managing Director (MD) of the Fund is both the Chair of the Executive Board and the head of the IMF staff. [...] More substantial civil society interest in the IMF emerged in the 1980s, chiefly in response to the agency's involvement in the Third World debt crisis and the expansion of Fund-sponsored structural adjustment programs. [...] In the focal countries of the present report, prominent university centres of concern with the IMF have included the Universidad del CEMA in Argentina, Oxford University in Britain, the Academy of Economic Studies in Romania, the Higher Economic School in Russia, Makerere University in Uganda and Princeton University in the USA. [...] Indeed, the IIF and the JCIF both owe their establishment in 1983 in good part to the perceived need for associations that would represent the collective interests of banks vis-à-vis the Fund in the Third World debt crisis of that day.

Download or read book The IMF and Civil Society written by MissGita Bhatt and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the space of just a few years, the term “civil society” has entered the international policy vocabulary in many contexts. The IMF’s engagement with civil society organizations (CSOs) raises several broad questions: Which CSOs have been, and should be, engaged by the Fund? What questions should IMF-CSO engagement address? What are the limits to the dialogue? This paper examines the evolution of IMF-civil society relations and their effects on the Fund. It also seeks to identify the tensions that underlie the relationship.

Download or read book Civil Society and Global Finance written by Albrecht Schnabel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This key text brings together twenty activists, officials and researchers from the five continents to discuss this burning question of today's globalization debate. Providing rare, authoritative analyses by those who deal with the issues first hand, Civil Society and Global Finance is rich in insight and policy ideas for decision-makers, students and concerned citizens.

Download or read book The IMF and Civil Society written by Thomas C. Dawson II and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book IMF Civil Society Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From the Margins to the Mainstream written by Citizens' Initiatives for the World Summit and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Accountability of the International Monetary Fund written by Barry Carin and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together leading experts from all over the world to further the debate on the various dimesions of accountability of IMF to its various sharholders and stakeholders. Having fully explored how the notion of accountability can be pragmatically applied it then tests various alternative appriaches and makes some recommendations.

Download or read book IMF Governance Summary of Issues and Reform Options written by International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, & Review Department and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2009-01-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper summarizes the main governance challenges and reform options facing the IMF, drawing together the analysis and reform proposals in the reports of the Eminent Persons Group (headed by Trevor Manuel), the IEO, and a range of other recent work on Fund governance. Lest the wide scope of these inputs result in a laundry list, judgment has been exercised in selecting key issues and proposals, and in laying out some of the pros and cons. With reform of quotas/voting power on a separate track, the focus here is on the institutional framework through which members express voting power, weaknesses in which are seen by many to have eroded the Fund’s legitimacy and effectiveness, thereby displacing the debate and initiative to outside entities. While an overall reform package would have to include quota shares, the key proposals discussed here aim to: increase political engagement and oversight; enhance Executive Board effectiveness and representation; modify voting rules; better delineate responsibilities; open up management selection; and tackle problems with mandate and institutional culture that limit the issues and approaches taken. Civil society has expressed a range of concerns related to IMF governance, including with regard to accountability at all levels (IMFC, Executive Board, management, and staff), mechanisms for responding to complaints and feedback from the broader public, and transparency. Given the diversity of their interests, and to provide unfiltered access to CSO views, the supplement: Fourth Pillar Recommendations from Civil Society; Preliminary Summary of Principles, Issues and Recommendations; has been prepared by CSO groups.

Download or read book The International Monetary Fund and Civil Society written by Jan Aart Scholte and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The International Monetary Fund and Civil Society written by Jan Aart Scholte and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The IMF and civil and civil society organizations written by Thomas C. Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A New Multilateralism for the 21st Century written by Ms.Christine Lagarde and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chapter presents the content of the Richard Dimbleby lecture, which has been delivered by an influential business or a political figure every year since 1972. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, delivered the 2014 lecture at Guildhall in London on February 3. The 44 nations gathering at Bretton Woods have been determined to set a new course based on the principle that peace and prosperity flow from the font of cooperation. Fundamentally, the new multilateralism needs to instil a broader sense of social responsibility on the part of all players in the modern global economy. A renewed commitment to openness and to the mutual benefits of trade and foreign investment is requested. It also requires collective responsibility for managing an international monetary system that has travelled light-years since the old Bretton Woods system. The collective responsibility would translate into all monetary institutions cooperating closely mindful of the potential impact of their policies on others.

Download or read book The IMF and Civil Society Organizations written by Thomas C. Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the space of just a few years, the term "civil society" has entered the international policy vocabulary in many contexts. The IMF's engagement with civil society organizations (CSOs) raises several broad questions: which CSOs have been, and should be, engaged by the Fund? What questions should IMF-CSO engagement address? What are the limits of dialogue? This paper examines the evolution of IMF-civil society relations and their effects on the Fund. It also seeks to identify the tensions that underlie the relationship.

Download or read book The IMF s Communication Strategy written by International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2007-05-29 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strategy proposed in this paper seeks to build understanding and support for the IMF’s reform agenda as outlined in the IMF's Medium-Term Strategy, further integrate communications with operations, raise the impact of communication tools, and rebalance outreach efforts.

Download or read book A Review of the Fund s External Communications Strategy written by International Monetary Fund. External Relations Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2003-02-13 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews implementation of the Fund’s external communications strategy and suggests issues that the Board may wish to discuss at its third meeting since 1998 on the subject. The strategy has been shaped by the previous Board discussions and more recent decisions and discussions on transparency, conditionality, PRSP/PRGF, the Independent Evaluation Office, and other issues. This paper represents more of a stocktaking than a fundamental reconsideration of the Fund’s approach to external communications. It examines the progress made in recent years and steps that might be taken with current resources to increase the effectiveness of the strategy.

Download or read book Controlling the World Bank and IMF written by Liam Clegg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liam Clegg provides an innovative reading of where power lies in the institutions' concessional lending operations, drawing its focus on shareholders and stakeholders from staffs' own understandings of their operational environments.