 | William Brown, Simon Bromley, Suma Athreye - 2004 - 666 pages
...matters. At first it seemed that the USA's plans for liberal institutions had been successful with the creation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank) at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire in the USA. Here,... | |
 | Shireen Hunter - 2004 - 196 pages
...acted out. Even in the social and economic spheres, the UN's role was drastically curtailed with the creation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), otherwise known as the World Bank, where the great powers, especially the US, exert... | |
 | Yevgeny Primakov - 2008 - 349 pages
...inability to pay its accumulated multibillion-dollar debts was made even more painful by the refusal of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) to keep their commitments to extend new amounts of credit. It was decided to let... | |
 | John Mukum Mbaku - 2004 - 360 pages
...and adopt effective institutional arrangements for the new century. The Bretton Woods institutions The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ie, the World Bank) were founded at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1944. The IMF's primary... | |
 | Jim Sherlock, Jonathan Reuvid - 2004 - 450 pages
...effects of trade protection and any future reductions in world economic activity. The first of these were the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), now known as the World Bank, which were established by the Bretton Woods Agreement... | |
 | Roger Burbach, Jim Tarbell - 2004 - 260 pages
...three weeks, 700 representatives of governments and private financial interests laboured to create the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank). The conference established the US dollar as the basic world currency and... | |
 | David Malone - 2004 - 764 pages
...mandate. Aristide had received US $20 million from Taiwan at the time of a breakdown in cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) over his resistance to privatization of several loss-making national enterprises.... | |
 | Robert P. Bremner - 2008 - 374 pages
...July 1945 as part of the Bretton Woods Agreements Act, the legislation authorizing US participation in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (the World Bank). The NAC consisted of the secretaries of Treasury (who served as chairman),... | |
 | Michael Lusztig - 292 pages
...Each of these regimes — the most prominent are the GATT (now the World Trade Organization, WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) — enjoys at least some ability to compel member states to comply with its... | |
 | John Mukum Mbaku, Joseph Takougang - 2004 - 592 pages
...effectively. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) — the Bretton Woods institutions Both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) were founded in 1944 at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire (USA). The IMF's primary... | |
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International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) - commonly known as the World Bank - in 1952. 
