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Key IMF adapting
Activities IMF
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Aims
KEY ACTIVITIES
The IMF supports its membership by providing…..
Executive Independent
Evaluation
Board
Office
Managing
Director
1) Surveillance
2) Conditional Financial Support
3) Technical Assistance
The appraisal of a country’s economic and structural
policies and performance from an international
standpoint. It is a regulatory or jurisdictional function,
which historically has been focused on the assessment
of the exchange arrangements, the exchange rates and
balance of payments.
Exchange Rates, Monetary and Fiscal Policies: Remain at the centre of
IMFsurveillance.
Structural Policies: Added to IMF surveillance agenda after the 1980’s oil
priceshock. Concerned with the macroeconomic performance of a country, and
payspecial attention to such issues as international trade and labour market issues.
Financial Sector: Added during the early 1990’s following a series of international
banking crisis's.
Institutional Issues: Concerned with such issues as independence of the
centralbank, financial sector regulation.
Assesment of Risks and Vulnerability: Crises prevention
Provide short term loans (1 to 5 years) to countries
experiencing balance of payments problems so that
they can restore conditions for sustainable
economic growth conditional upon policies and
procedures developed by the fund to govern the
access to and the use of its resource by member
countries.
• In the event that member countries experience difficulties
financing their balance of payments, the IMF is also a
fund that can be tapped to facilitate recover. A policy
program supported by financing is designed by the
national authorities in close cooperation with the IMF.
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General Allocations.
The first allocation was for a total amount of
SDR 9.3 billion in 1970-72.
The second SDRallocation,
Allocations tofor
IMF SDR
Members12.1 bn in
1979–81.
The third general allocation was approved on
August 7, 2009 for an amount of SDR 161.2
billion
Special Allocations.