The IMF and the Silent Revolution: Global Finance and Development in the 1980s

September 11, 2000

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James M. Boughton The IMF and the Silent Revolution: Global Finance and Development in the 1980s, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed November 24, 2024

Summary

This pamphlet is adapted from Chapter 1 of Silent Revolution: The International Monetary Fund, 1979-89, by the same author. That book is full of history of the evolution of the Fund during 11 years in which the institution truly came of age as a participant in the international financial system.

Subject: Debt default, Exchange rate policy, Exchange rates, External debt, Financial crises, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Prices

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, BOOK, Country, Creditor country, Current account, Debt default, Deutsche mark, Developing country, Donor country, Europe, Exchange rate, Exchange rate policy, Exchange rates, Fund SDR, Global, Indebted country, Industrial country, Inflation, Low-income country, Market forces, Recipient country, The Fund, Third world, Unit of account, Western Europe

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Notes

This pamphlet is based on the IMF history volume published in 2001 entitled "Silent Revolution: The International Monetary Fund 1979-1989.

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