Asking the Right Questions About the IMF - http://minneapolisfed.org/pubs/ar/1998/ar1998.cfm
The authors of this essay argue that the issue is not so much what the IMF should do, but what needs to be done and who can best do the job. |
Christian Science Monitor - Capitalism's Controversial Clean-Up Crew - http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/01/15/us/us.5.html
Article examining the IMF's pros and cons, including some history and perspective. |
Debt And Dependency Are The IMF Legacy - http://www.cato.org/dailys/4-23-98.html
Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute says that the IMF has failed to promote self-sustaining economic growth anywhere in the world. Instead, it has left debt and dependency in its wake. |
Hoover Institution - Public Policy Inquiry: International Monetary Fund - http://www.imfsite.org/default.htm
Provides facts, policies, research and perspectives on the IMF from the conservative and libertarian think tank at Stanford University. |
IMF and Structural Adjustment Policies - http://www.globalissues.org/article/3/structural-adjustment-a-major-cause-of-poverty
The IMF and World Bank structural adjustment policies have led to a spiraling race to the bottom for the developing countries that have followed their prescriptions, which require cutbacks on health, education and so on. Poverty as a result has soared. |