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Author Bryant, Ralph C., 1938-

Title Crisis prevention and prosperity management for the world economy / Ralph C. Bryant
Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 171 pages) : illustrations
Series Turbulent waters
Pragmatic choices for international financial governance ; pt. 1
Bryant, Ralph C., 1938- Turbulent waters.
Bryant, Ralph C., 1938- Pragmatic choices for international financial governance ; pt. 1.
Contents Collective surveillance : rationale and basic questions -- Venues for intergovernmental cooperation : general considerations -- Institutional dimensions of supranational surveillance -- The IMF and other international organizations as traffic monitors and adjustment referees -- Soft or hard guidelines? -- Improving analytical foundations -- Dissemination of information : transparency versus confidentiality -- The individual nation's choice of exchange regime -- Guidelines for cross-border financial transactions -- Use of financial sector assessments in broader surveillance of a nation's economic policies -- Explicit coordination of national macroeconomic policies? -- Evolution of macro-surveillance for the world economy -- Lending intermediation among national governments : general considerations -- Lending intermediation and surveillance by the IMF -- Should the IMF's mandate be narrowed to crisis vulnerability? -- Should the IMF's mandate be broadened? -- IMF lending facilities -- IMF lending : an overview -- The IMF : whose institution? -- IMF governance : distribution of quotas, voting power, and constituencies -- Aggregate size of IMF resources
Summary Bryant, a senior fellow in the economic studies program at the Brookings Institution, examines supranational surveillance and lending intermediation as key elements of the reform of the international financial system. He argues that national governments and international organizations need to upgrade their collective efforts at financial crisis pre
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-163) and index
Notes English
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Subject International Monetary Fund.
SUBJECT International Monetary Fund fast
Subject Capital movements.
International finance.
Financial crises.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics.
Capital movements
Financial crises
International finance
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0815797575
9780815797579
1280813121
9781280813122
9786610813124
6610813124