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quality level drove nations to raise exchange boundaries, degrade their monetary standards to
contend with each other for trade advertises and reduce use of remote trade by their nationals.
Every one of these components prompted declining world exchange, high joblessness, and diving
expectations for everyday comforts in numerous nations. In 1944, the Bretton Woods Agreement
set up another universal financial framework. The formation of the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) and the World Bank were two of its most persevering inheritances.
IMF
IMF was developed with a main goal to cater the monetary challenges faced by the developing
countries and maintain a balanced financial system.The role of IMF for developing countries is
quite controversial from its inception.According to hand on reports and statistical data, the
results of their Fund programmes on macro economic policies are quite over rated.It is not able
to attain its secondary goals of development and inflation. IMF is criticised for following actions:
World bank like IMF tries to address the economic crisis in developing countries.It finances the
poorest developing countries whose per capita GNP is less than $865 a year through
International development Association.World bank provides two types of loans i.e. Investment
loans and Development policy loans.According to reports and statistics, the neoliberal approach
of World Bank is quite objectionable because of following policies:
It may be noted that World Bank has granted loans to several countries and their success is based
on it but still a lot of financial projects are due.The bank has also played important roles in the
political and economic matters e.g. the Indus water treaty between India and Pakistan.