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IMF News Brief
NEWS BRIEF - IMF Sending Mission to Argentina, 4 March.
Speech by H Kohler, Managing Director, IMF, 28 Feb
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'Inflation Targeting' Kohler said that there has been a widespread desire to avoid excessive volatility in the exchange rates of the world's major currencies ever since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system.
Speech by Anne Krueger of the IMF, 25 February
SPEECH - The world economy is at or near a turning point, which makes it difficult for central banks to make the right decisions on interest rates, International Monetary Fund First Deputy Managing Director Anne Krueger said in a speech titled 'Making…
Townhall Meeting with IMF and World Bank leaders
MEETING - IMF Managing Director Horst Kohler and World Bank President James Wolfensohn with Civil Society Representatives Participating in the International Conference on Poverty Reduction Strategies, moderated by Warren Nyamugasira, Uganda National NGO…
IMF News Brief
NEWS BRIEF - IMF's Kohler: Good Start to New Relationship with Argentina IMF Managing Director Horst Kohler said in Washington, D.C. today (13 February).
Argentina has a month to get IMF aid, bankers say
ARGENTINA - Argentina may descend into a chaotic spiral of hyperinflation and social unrest unless the government can secure a massive IMF loan package in the next 30 days, local bankers and analysts said.
IMF News Brief
NEWS BRIEF - IMF's Kohler Welcomes Remes Visit, says IMF Working Closely with Argentina, 8 February.
Dornbusch's Overshooting Model After 25 Years
RESEARCH - Second Annual IMF Research Conference, Mundell-Fleming Lecture, Kenneth Rogoff, Economic Counselor and Director of the IMF Research Department, 29 November 2001, (revised 22 January, 2002) released 7 February.
Turkey - Letter of Intent
NEWS - The following item is a Letter of Intent of the government of Turkey, which describes the policies that Turkey intends to implement in the context of its request for financial support from the IMF.
IMF Press Release, 4 February
PRESS RELEASE - IMF Managing Director Sees Impressive Commitment by Turkey to Economic Reforms; Executive Board Approves US$16 Billion Stand-By Credit.
Speech by Horst Kohler, Managing Director, IMF
SPEECH - In his speech titled 'Working for a Better Globalization' Kohler urged Argentine authorities to develop a comprehensive and coherent economic strategy that the lender can back with loans.
IMF's Koehler urges coherent plan from Argentina
US - The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday urged Argentine authorities to develop a comprehensive and coherent economic strategy that the lender can back with loans.
Speech by Stanley Fischer of the IMF
SPEECH - In his speech titled 'Breaking Out of the Third World: India's Economic Imperative' Fischer said the Indian monetary policy of not trying to peg a particular value for the rupee was good economics and that all the eight countries which…
Speech by Shigemitsu Sugisaki of the IMF
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'Global Prospects after September 11 and Implications for Japan' Sugisaki said that the Bank of Japan should set a deadline to end deflation and stop a cycle of falling prices in the world's second largest economy.
IMF: Argentina may spark inflation with note print
ARGENTINA - IMF Deputy Managing Director Anne Krueger said that the Argentine authorities may spark inflation if they start printing money, and thus neutralise any other economic measure taken to overcome the country's financial crisis.
Speech by Horst Kohler, Managing Director, IMF
SPEECH - Horst Kohler in a speech 'International Conference on Poverty Reduction Strategies' expressed his confidence that this conference will be an important step forward in strengthening the core of the effort to reduce world poverty-self-help and…
IMF Working Paper on Central Bank Independence
RESEARCH - IMF Working Paper by Castellani, Francesca and Debrun, Xavier titled 'Central Bank Independence and the Design of Fiscal Institutions' and released 7 January 2002.
Speech by Anne Krueger of the IMF
SPEECH - Address by Anne Krueger, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, given at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, Delhi, India, 20 December.
Speech by Horst Kohler, Managing Director, IMF
SPEECH - Remarks by Horst Kohler, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund. At a news conference in Luxembourg Mr. Koehler said the U.S. economy should recover in the second quarter next year. The European economy will turn around by mid-2002, he…
Duisenberg to stay: "I like what I'm doing"
GERMANY - Wim Duisenberg said on Monday that he would not quit his job as President of the ECB for at least another year.
IMF Working Paper - Contagion and Shifting Risk
RESEARCH - IMF Working Paper - Pure Contagion and Investors Shifting Risk Appetite: Analytical Issues and Empirical Evidence by Manmohan Kumar and Avinash Persaud, September 2001.
The Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Japan
RESEARCH - With voices at the Bank of Japan and Ministry of Finance suggesting that more radical monetary policy tools are used to counter Japan's current deflationary spiral and recession this IMF paper looks at how monetary shocks impact on the…
Speech by Anne Krueger of the IMF
SPEECH - Address by Anne Krueger, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, given at the National Economists' Club Annual Members' Dinner, American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC, 26 November.
Speech by Horst Kohler, Managing Director, IMF
SPEECH - Statement by IMF Managing Director, Horst Kohler, given at the Fourth WTO Ministerial Conference, Doha, 10 November.