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The Imf And The World Bank At Sixty » (New Edition)

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Authors: Ariel Buira
ISBN-13: 9781843311966, ISBN-10: 1843311968
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Anthem Press
Date Published: September 2000
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Ariel Buira

Ariel Buira is Director of the G24 Secretariat. He has been Special Envoy of the President of Mexico for the UN Conference on Financing for Development, Ambassador of Mexico, Member of the Board of Governors of the Bank of Mexico and Executive Director of the IMF.

Book Synopsis

An authoritative review of the position of the IMF and World Bank in their sixtieth year.

1	Introduction	1
2	The IMF at sixty : an unfulfilled potential?	5
3	Conditionality and its alternatives	31
4	Mission creep, mission push and discretion : the case of IMF conditionality	59
5	Up from sin : a portfolio approach to salvation	85
6	Trip wires and speed bumps : managing financial risks and reducing the potential for financial crises in developing economies	117
7	A fiscal insurance scheme for the Eastern Caribbean currency union	151
8	Who pays for the World Bank?	181
9	Reinventing industrial strategy : the role of government policy in building industrial competitiveness	197
10	Assessing the risks in the private provision of essential services	235
11	How well do measurements of an enabling domestic environment for development stand up?	281
12	The cocoa market under neoliberalism	311