The IMF and the World Bank at Sixty

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'The IMF and the World Bank at Sixty' presents a selection of essays prepared for the Group of Twenty-Four Developing Nations (G24), by some of the foremost authorities in their fields, which address these challenges and suggest the need for reform in several areas. These essays have one fundamental aim: to improve the functioning of the global economy and to better enable developing countries to share in the prosperity of recent decades.

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'The contributors to this volume provide cogent arguments for substantial reforms, not only to the IMF and World Bank, but to the entire financial system, to make it less prone to crisis and more supportive to developing countries.' Roy Culpepper, Ph.D. President and CEO, The North-South Institute, Canada
'The current volume is indicative of the range of significant second options, reflective of developing countries' concerns, that emanate from the G-24's continuing research programme. Its papers should stimulate debates that, on the occasion of the IFI's 60th anniversary, deserve to take place both within these institutions and throughout the broader community of financial and development analysts and policymakers.' Gerry Helleiner, Professor Emeritus, Economics and distinguished Research Fellow, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
'These "voices of the poorer" are excellent challenges and extensions of present development thinking, whether they are concerned with debt management in developing countries, with conditionalities of the IMF or (my favourite) industrial competitiveness.' Jozef Ritzen, President of the Universiteit Maastricht and former Vice President of the World Bank's Development Economics Department (2001-3)

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Ariel Buira is Director of the G24 Secretariat. He has been Special Envoy of the President of Mexico for the UN Conference on Financing for Development, Ambassador of Mexico, Member of the Board of Governors of the Bank of Mexico and Executive Director of the IMF. His publications include 'The IMF and the World Bank at Sixty' (Anthem Press, 2005) and 'Challenges to the World Bank and IMF: Developing Country Perspectives' (Anthem Press, 2003).