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This chapter is devoted to the origins of the IMF and to its principal provisions and operation. A brief appraisal is followed by a few suggestions for further reading.
Any “reforms” that would make the IMF “democratic” and “universal” and its support “automatic” would make it inefficient and ineffective and would lead to its eventual demise as a useful instrument of world economic development. It should not be turned into a satellite or replica of the United Nations.
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van Meerhaeghe, M.A.G. (1998). The International Monetary Fund. In: International Economic Institutions. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5565-7_2
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