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Book Synopsis'The IMF and the World Bank at Sixty' presents a selection of essays prepared for the Group of Twenty-Four Developing Nations (G24), by some of the foremost authorities in their fields, which address these challenges and suggest the need for reform in several areas. These essays have one fundamental aim: to improve the functioning of the global economy and to better enable developing countries to share in the prosperity of recent decades.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. The IMF at Sixty: An Unfulfilled Potential?; 3. Conditionality and Its Alternatives; 4. Mission Creep, Mission Push and Discretion: The Case of IMF Conditionality; 5. Up From Sin: A Portfolio Approach to Salvation; 6. Trip Wires and Speed Bumps: Managing Financial Risks and Reducing the Potential for Financial Crises in Developing Economies; 7. A Fiscal Insurance Scheme for the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union; 8. Who Pays fot the World Bank?; 9. Reinventing Industrial Strategy: The Role of Government Policy in Building Industrial Competitiveness; 10. Assessing the Risks in the Private Provision of Essential Services; 11. How Well Do Measurements of an Enabling Domestic Environment for Development Stand Up?; 12. The Cocoa Market Under Neoliberalism; Index
