IMF Finances
Financial Organization and Operations of the IMF
Review of the Fund's Strategy on Overdue Financial Obligations
Quotas
Gold
General Arrangements to Borrow and New Arrangements to Borrow
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Financing the Fund’s Operations — Review of Issues
Prepared by the Treasurer’s Department
(In consultation with the Legal Department)
April 11, 2001
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Contents
- Introduction
- The Structure and Operation of the Fund’s Finances
- Financial Structure and Balance Sheet
- Costs and Revenues
- Distribution of the Cost of Operating the Fund
- Proposals to Modify the Structure and Operation of the Fund’s Finances
- Concessionality, Incentives, and Maturities
- Equity Considerations
- Robustness of the Mechanism
- Simplification
- Concluding Remarks
Text Tables
- The Fund’s Balance Sheet and Associated Income and Expense, and Burden Sharing Contributions, FY 2000
- The Fund’s Administrative Expenses, FY 1996-2000
- Relative Burden on Members of Financing the Fund’s Administrative Expenses, Precautionary Balances, and Imputed Interest Costs, FY 1982-2000
- Summary of Proposals on the Structure and Operation of the Fund’s Finances
Text Boxes
- The Fund’s Lending Mechanism
- Fund Liquidity and Financial Transactions Plan
- The Fund’s GRA Lending
- Organization of the Fund’s Accounts
- Gold in the Fund
- The Fund’s Operational Exchange and Interest Rates
- The Burden-Sharing Mechanism
- Adjusting the Unremunerated Reserve Tranche
Figures
- Selected IMF Interest Rates, FY 1974-2000
Appendices
- The Fund’s Precautionary Balances
- Decisions Affecting the Fund’s Income
- Factors Affecting the Fund’s Rate of Charge
- The Fund’s Interest-Free Resources
- Rates of Charge and Remuneration, SDR and Market Interest Rates, and Grant Element, FY 1950-2000
Appendix Tables
- The Fund’s Precautionary Balances and Free Reserves, FY 1950-2000
- The Fund’s Interest-Free Resources in the GRA, FY 1960-2000
- Members’ Quotas, Norms, and Potential Unremunerated Reserve Tranche
- Rates of Charge and Remuneration, SDR and Market Interest Rates, and Grant Element, FY 1950-2000
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