The changing Role and strategies of the IMF and the perspectives for the perspectives for the ecomerging countries
By: CARVALHO, Fernando J. Cardim de
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ArticlePublisher: São Paulo : Editora 34, abr./jun. 2000Revista de Economia Política = Brazilian Journal of Political Economy 20, 1, p. 3-17Abstract: The IMF was created right after World War II to manage an international payments system based on fixed exchange rates. In its early years the Fund's remedy to balance-of-payments crises consisted in reducing domestic aggregate demand. As a result, its policies were seen as recessive. With the collapse of the fixed exchange rates system in the early 70s, the Fund lost its clients in the developed world and turned to developing countries. In the Fund's approach, developing countries suffered crises not because of temporary maladjustments between aggregate supply and demand but because of structural problems. Accordingly, the Fund began to impose structural reforms as conditionalities for its loans, curbing the autonomy of developing countries to adopt the policies they would see as favorable to growth
The IMF was created right after World War II to manage an international payments system based on fixed exchange rates. In its early years the Fund's remedy to balance-of-payments crises consisted in reducing domestic aggregate demand. As a result, its policies were seen as recessive. With the collapse of the fixed exchange rates system in the early 70s, the Fund lost its clients in the developed world and turned to developing countries. In the Fund's approach, developing countries suffered crises not because of temporary maladjustments between aggregate supply and demand but because of structural problems. Accordingly, the Fund began to impose structural reforms as conditionalities for its loans, curbing the autonomy of developing countries to adopt the policies they would see as favorable to growth
Revista de Economia Política 2000
v. 20, n.1(77)
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