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International Monetary Fund (IMF)

IMF new lending rises slightly

IMF ANNUAL REPORT 2001 - Lending by the International Monetary Fund in its financial year 2001 to last April increased slightly, reflecting additional loans to Argentina and Turkey to assist their economic reform.

Big bang or gradualism in economic reforms

WORKING PAPER - IMF Working Paper written by Andrew Feltenstein and Saleh M Nsouli published August 2001. "Big Bang" Versus Gradualism in Economic Reforms: An Intertemporal Analysis with an Application to China.

IMF to cut global forecasts

US - The IMF has cut its forecast for world economic growth this year to 2.8% from 3.2%, Reuters reported on 29 August citing unnamed sources at the international lender.

IMF says cash to reserves, Argentina decides use

ARGENTINA - The International Monetary Fund reiterated on 22 August that the money Argentina will receive under its new $8 billion program will go to central bank reserves, but it is then up to the country to decide how to use it.

Back to Bretton Woods

UK - The anti-globalisation protesters have a point, argues Felix Rohatyn a former US ambassador to France, in the London edition of the Financial Times, 20 August. It is time to reform the IMF and World Bank, he says.

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