Review of the Role of Trade in the Work of the Fund

Review of the Role of Trade in the Work of the Fund
Author: International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, & Review Department
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2023-04-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This paper outlines key changes in the global trade landscape in recent years, reviews the role of the Fund in this area, and outlines a trade strategy for the Fund going forward. The analysis points to three key messages. First, while trade has been resilient vis-à-vis recent global shocks, the deteriorating trade policy environment poses risks to the current levels of prosperity. Second, the Fund has responded quickly to key trade developments in its multilateral surveillance, but attention to trade policy has declined pointing to the need of improved expertise. Third, a reinvigorated trade strategy for the Fund would help country authorities to address key challenges, including adjusting to structural changes associated with climate change and new technologies; promoting policy coherence between trade and non-trade objectives such as climate, inequality, and security; and managing rising geopolitical tensions and risks of geo-economic fragmentation.

Review of the Role of Trade in the Work of the Fund

Review of the Role of Trade in the Work of the Fund
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2015-03-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498344879

This review follows the Board-endorsed recommendation by the IEO in 2009 to have an assessment of the Fund’s work on trade every five years. In addition to reviewing past work, this paper discusses key issues going forward towards a future trade agenda for the next five years. This reflects the need to operationalize the implications of the changing trade landscape, including the changing drivers of trade—such as global value chains (GVCs)—and the movement of the fulcrum of trade policy from multilateral rounds to regional and plurilateral deals.

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund
Author: International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 1064
Release: 2024-03-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This volume is the Forty-Third Issue of Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund. It includes decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Board and the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund, as well as selected documents, to which frequent reference is made in the current activities of the Fund. In addition, it includes certain documents relating to the Fund, the United Nations, and other international organizations.

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund, 42nd Issue

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund, 42nd Issue
Author: International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 962
Release: 2022-08-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1589068556

This volume documents decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Board and Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund, as well as documents relating to the United Nations and other international organizations.

The Role of Trade in Ending Poverty

The Role of Trade in Ending Poverty
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN: 9789287042323

The Role of Trade in Ending Poverty looks at the complex relationships between economic growth, poverty reduction and trade, and examines the challenges that poor people face in benefiting from trade opportunities. Written jointly by the World Bank Group and the WTO, the publication examines how trade could make a greater contribution to ending poverty by increasing efforts to lower trade costs, improve the enabling environment, implement trade policy in conjunction with other areas of policy, better manage risks faced by the poor, and improve data used for policy-making.

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund, Thirty-Ninth Issue

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund, Thirty-Ninth Issue
Author: International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 1048
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1475595999

This volume documents decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Board and Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund, as well as documents relating to the United Nations and other international organizations.

Statement by the Managing Director on the Work Program of the Executive Board - Executive Board Meeting - November 24, 2014

Statement by the Managing Director on the Work Program of the Executive Board - Executive Board Meeting - November 24, 2014
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 13
Release: 2014-12-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1498342574

The Managing Director’s Global Policy Agenda (GPA) presented to the IMFC in October identified a range of actions needed to prevent growth from settling into a “new mediocre” with unacceptably low job creation and inclusion. These actions included managing eventual monetary normalization in advanced economies and its effects on other economies, growth-friendly fiscal policies to enhance the quality of public expenditure and reduce distortions in revenue collection, policies to safeguard financial stability while strengthening credit transmission, structural reforms to buttress productivity and strengthen growth, and increasing investment in infrastructure. The GPA also outlined how the Fund would support the membership through assessments and policy advice provided in the context of multilateral and bilateral surveillance, capacity building, and financial support.

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund, Fortieth Issue

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund, Fortieth Issue
Author: International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 854
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1513515217

This volume is the Fortieth Issue of Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the IMF. It includes decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Board and the Board of Governors of the IMF, as well as selected documents, to which frequent reference is made in the current activities of the IMF. In addition, it includes certain documents relating to the IMF, the United Nations, and other international organizations. As with other recent issues, the number of decisions in force continues to increase, with the decision format tending to be longer given the use of summings up in lieu of formal decisions. Accordingly, it has become necessary to delete certain decisions that were included in earlier issues, that is, those that only completed or called for reviews of decisions, those that lapsed, and those that were superseded by more recent decisions. Wherever reference is made in these decisions and documents to a provision of the IMF’s Articles of Agreement or Rules and Regulations that has subsequently been renumbered by, or because of, the Second Amendment of the Fund’s Articles of Agreement (effective April 1, 1978), the corresponding provision currently in effect is cited in a footnote.

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund, Forty First Issue Supplement

Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the International Monetary Fund, Forty First Issue Supplement
Author: International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 907
Release: 2021-02-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1513557521

This volume is the Forty-First Issue of Selected Decisions and Selected Documents of the IMF. It includes decisions, interpretations, and resolutions of the Executive Board and the Board of Governors of the IMF, as well as selected documents, to which frequent reference is made in the current activities of the IMF. In addition, it includes certain documents relating to the IMF, the United Nations, and other international organizations. As with other recent issues, the number of decisions in force continues to increase, with the decision format tending to be longer given the use of summings up in lieu of formal decisions. Accordingly, it has become necessary to delete certain decisions that were included in earlier issues, that is, those that only completed or called for reviews of decisions, those that lapsed, and those that were superseded by more recent decisions. Wherever reference is made in these decisions and documents to a provision of the IMF’s Articles of Agreement or Rules and Regulations that has subsequently been renumbered by, or because of, the Second Amendment of the Fund’s Articles of Agreement (effective April 1, 1978), the corresponding provision currently in effect is cited in a footnote.