Cover -- THE IMF AND GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISES -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedicatiopn -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 IPGs and Financial Stability -- 1.2 IGOs and the IMF -- 1.3 Principals and Agents -- 1.4...

This paper evaluates the literature on the lending programs of the IMF. The first section deals with the initiation of a Fund program, which has been shown to be influenced by political and institutional variables. A second focus of research analyzes the design and implementation of Fund...

This paper uses a fixed-effects model to analyze the effect of IMF programs on poverty with data from 82 countries during 1985 to 2000. Two indicators of poverty, infant mortality rates and the Human Development Index (HDI), are utilized, and the effects of the IMF's concessionary and...