International Financial Policy and Economic Development: A Disaggregated Approach

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction: the Issues Involved....Pages 1-11
The Developing World: a Special Case?....Pages 12-41
The IMF and the Developing World: History, Relationships and Resource Uses....Pages 42-62
IMF Conditionality and Economic Development....Pages 63-92
The Fund’s Lending Facilities: Reforming the Compensatory Financing Facility and the Extended Fund Facility....Pages 93-107
Commodity Price Stabilisation and International Financial Policy....Pages 108-130
Interest-Rate Policy and International Finance....Pages 131-149
Financing the Fund and Reforming Quotas....Pages 150-188
Reserve Currency Consolidation, Gold Policy and Financial Flows to Developing Countries....Pages 189-211
The Link....Pages 212-229
Private Bank Lending to Developing Countries....Pages 230-244
Developing Country Debt: a Review of the Policy Alternatives....Pages 245-269
Policies to Enhance Private Lending to Developing Countries....Pages 270-285
The Banks and the IMF: the Nature of, and Scope for, Co-operation....Pages 286-299
Financial Co-operation amongst Developing Countries....Pages 300-310
The Way Forward....Pages 311-320
Back Matter....Pages 321-348