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The International Monetary Fund: Outdated, Ineffective, and Unnecessary
An May 1997 backgrounder by the Heritage Institute's Bryan T. Johnson, which covers much of the history and criticism of the IMF.
www.heritage.org/

United States - Capitalism's Controversial Clean-Up Crew
An article examining the IMF's pros and cons, including some history and perspective.
www.csmonitor.com/

IMF and Structural Adjustment Policies
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.
www.globalissues.org/

IMF's Four Steps to Damnation
Short article based on interview with Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank, now an outspoken critic of World Bank-style globalisation.
www.zmag.org/

IMF, Capital, and Us: The Economics of Imperialism
Is the IMF just a tool of the MultiNational Corporation?
www.igc.org/

Debt And Dependency Are The IMF Legacy
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.
www.cato.org/

Asking the Right Questions About the IMF
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.
minneapolisfed.org/

IMF Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board
Facilitates technical cooperation in the public dissemination of economic, financial, and socio-demographic data provided by the IMF.
dsbb.imf.org/

International Financial Institutions Research Site
This site lists research materials on the international financial institutions, and in particular, the IMF and the World Bank. These lists are titles and publication info of print media, NOT links to articles themselves.
www.wellesley.edu/

The Insider: What I Learned at the World Economic Crisis
Article by Joseph Stiglitz, former Chief Economist at the World Bank, attacking free market dogma IMF-style - which he says is out of touch with reality.
www.brook.edu/