The IMF and Global Financial Crises : Phoenix Rising?.

Joyce traces the IMF's actions to promote international financial stability from the Bretton Woods era through the recent recession.

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Main Author: Joyce, Joseph P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; THE IMF AND GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISES; Title; Copyright; Dedicatiopn; Contents; List of Figures, Tables, and Boxes; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 IPGs and Financial Stability; 1.2 IGOs and the IMF; 1.3 Principals and Agents; 1.4 Overview; 2 Bretton Woods; 2.1 New Order; 2.2 Administrative Arrangements; 2.3 Adjustment versus Finance; 2.4 Collapse of Bretton Woods; 2.5 IMF and Bretton Woods: Appraisal; 3 Transitions; 3.1 New Responsibilities; 3.2 Euromarkets; 3.3 Recycling; 3.4 New Organizations; 3.5 IMF and the Nonsystem: Appraisal; 4 The Debt Crisis.
  • 4.1 Crisis Emergence4.2 Crisis Manager; 4.3 Program Breakdowns; 4.4 Crisis Resolution; 4.5 Basel I; 4.6 IMF and the Debt Crisis: Appraisal; 5 Global Finance Redux; 5.1 Resurgence of Capital Flows; 5.2 IMF Programs and Capital Decontrol; 5.3 Catalysis; 5.4 New Amendment; 5.5 IMF and Financial Liberalization: Appraisal; 6 Currency Crises; 6.1 ERM; 6.2 IMF and the ERM Crisis: Appraisal; 6.3 Mexico: Crisis; 6.4 Mexico: Aftermath; 6.5 IMF and Mexico: Appraisal; 7 The Widening Gyre; 7.1 East Asia; 7.2 IMF and East Asia: Appraisal; 8 Fiscal Follies; 8.1 Russia; 8.2 IMF and Russia: Appraisal.
  • 8.3 Brazil8.4 Argentina; 8.5 IMF and Argentina: Appraisal; 9 Lessons Learned; 9.1 Reforms; 9.2 International Lender of Last Resort; 9.3 FSF and Basel II; 9.4 Reserves and Regional Arrangements; 10 The Great Recession; 10.1 Global Imbalances; 10.2 Premonitions; 10.3 Impasse; 10.4 Implosion; 10.5 IMF and the Great Recession: Appraisal; 11 The World Turned Upside Down; 11.1 Debt Again; 11.2 Integration or Autonomy?; 11.3 What Is to Be Done?; Appendix: IMF Data; References; Index.