The Office of the Nordic-Baltic Constituency INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

During the half year from the Spring meetings to the Singapore Annual Meetings, work has, in particular, concentrated on the issues of Quotas, Voice and Representation,

This broad foundation of the Fund’s surveillance over exchange rate policies is laid out in Article IV of the Fund’s Articles of Agreement, and further specified in the 1977

In addition to the protracted debates on governance issues and the Fund’s resources in 2010, the main policy topics were strengthening the Fund surveillance, reforming

In March, the Board also reviewed the Fund’s policy on external debt limits in low-income countries (LICs) on account of changes in country situations and patterns of

In June 2010, the Executive Board established a Post-Catastrophe Debt Relief (PCDR) Trust that allows the Fund to join international debt relief efforts to very poor countries hit

Context. The IMF’s Articles of Agreement commit the institution to “the promotion and maintenance of high levels of employment and real income.” In the aftermath of the crisis,

The Executive Board agreed in May 2013 that issues related to sovereign debt restructuring required follow-up work and asked staff to present options related to (i) the

Several items specifically pertaining to Low-Income and Developing Countries (LIDCs) were discussed during the latter half of the year, including on macroeconomic developments,