The IMF and the European debt crisis

This book explores the IMF's engagement in Europe in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis. It explains the nature and consequences of the assistance provided to Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Cyprus by the "troika" – the IMF, European Central Bank, and European Commission. It also analyzes how the euro area developments interacted with and affected the rest of Europe, including the United Kingdom, where the political fallout from post-financial crisis populism – in the form of "Brexit" from the European Union – was, in the end, the most extreme.