This document provides an overview of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. It discusses their establishment, goals, organizational structures, functions, enforcement mechanisms, and provides a case study on Argentina. The IMF aims to maintain global monetary stability by providing short-term loans to address balance of payment issues. The World Bank provides long-term loans for poverty alleviation and development projects. Both institutions have faced criticism for undermining state sovereignty and representing global economic inequalities.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) & The World Bank Group
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International Monetary Fund
& The World Bank Group
ABDUL BASIT ADEEL
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Contents:
• Introduction
Establishment
IMF vs. World Bank – Fundamental difference
• IMF
Basic structure, goals, mechanism etc.
• World Bank
Basic structure, goals, mechanism etc.
• Case Study
Argentina
• Conclusion
• Discussion
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INTRODUCTION
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Establishment:
• Established after WW II to rehabilitate global economy
• Bretton Wood Conference - 1944
• New instructional infrastructure for intl. economics
• Intern-state treaties
• New institutions
IMF
World Bank
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IMF vs. World Bank:
• Common origin and similar structural features
• Different purposes, functioning and outcome
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IMF vs. World Bank:
• International Monetary Fund
• Help states in dealing with balance of payment problems
• Short term loans of foreign currencies
Generally followed dictation/change in policies to enable
monetary stability
• World Bank
• Long term loans for poverty/development related projects
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IMF/WB and Member States:
• Member states have two level relationship that develops
• Whey they sign treaties
Particular rights like participation in plenary bodies
Obligations: financial contribution, compliance with terms
• When they borrow money
Shaped by standard legal terms but more significance is of the
negotiation terms between that states and IMF/WB
Virtually no authority of IMF/WB over non-borrowing members
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IMF – Basics:
• Members:
• 186 member – 29 founding members as of 1945
• Main goal:
• To maintain stability of global monetary system
By offering technical assistance
By lending money to maintain balance of payments
• Key structure:
• A pool of $325 billons to borrow from
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IMF - Functioning:
• At the time of establishment, two functions were defined:
1. Central coordinating mechanism for exchange rates
Before this was relative to each other or gold
Became obsolete after a shift of intl. economy to market
driven exchange rates since 1970s
+ Relevant article was amended to work
2. Create a fund based on forex reserves of member states
Given as loans to states facing balance of payments deficits
Still functioning
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IMF – Membership Obligations:
• Collaborate with the fund for stable exchange rates
• Avoid manipulating exchange rates
• To accept periodic surveillance of domestic monetary
position and provide correct information about it
• States can refuse it if it is overwhelming – Argentina 2006
• To accept the conditions attached with the loan agreement
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IMF – Organizational Structure:
1. Board of Governors:
• Decides on highest level policy questions
• Finance ministers or Central bankers of 186 states
• Power is delegated to the Executive Board
2. Directors of Executive Board:
• Reviews load request and deals with operational matters
• 24 members
5 biggest contributor states – 19 states to represent others
+ Bigger economies / contributor’s vote have more weightage
• 85% majority is required to ratify decisions
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IMF – How it works:
Repayment
Loan earns profit as well as brings economic stability
Surveillance
If country implementing the agreed policies then installments continue
Negotiations & Agreement
Country has to agree to conditions to improve her monetary stability
Balance of Payment Problem
Loan is given out on defined installments and conditions
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IMF – Enforcement:
• No legal authority of IMF over states policies
• No legal power to punish the deviant states
• In the case of ineligibility:
New installments may be stopped
• In the case non-compliance:
States may not be able to use fund’s resources
States may not be able to vote and asked to withdraw
IMF may put political pressure – Argentina’s default, 2006
However, this has never be practiced
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IMF – In case of failed Enforcement:
Sates use non-compliance/default as a tool of leverage
• Such behavior depends on the effective political power
• Almost half of IMF loan cases don’t meet the conditions
• What IMF does when a state defaults:
• Tries to pressurize the states via institutions & other states
• Threatens to denounce reputation and credit rating
• Tells that future loans will be based on current behaviors
States are given waivers in criteria (sometimes repayment)
Sometime conditions are renegotiated
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World Bank – Basics:
• Members:
• 186 member – 1945
• Main goal:
• Assistance in development & reconstruction
Aimed at European and Asian reconstruction after WWII
After 1960s, development as a strategy against poverty
• Key structure:
• A pool of contributions worth $275b to borrow from
• $59b in loans and credits + self issued bonds to raise money
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World Bank – Membership Obligations:
• Bank is a corporate partnership with shareholders
• Shares are proportionate to the investment made
• Members on joining purchase shares to for a lending fund
• Cannot be traded or used as collateral for sovereign borrowing
• 20% upfront paid in gold or USD, rest in various currencies
• Shares can fluctuate when currencies fluctuate
• USA, Japan, Germany, France, UK have highest shares
• Borrowers agree to the loan terms
• May include policy changes
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World Bank – Organizational Structure:
• Similar to that of IMF
• Board of Governors
• Board of Executive Directors
8 largest share holders – 16 region based representatives
• President
• Several Institutions under World Bank Group
• The original Intl. Bank for Development & Reconstruction
• International Finance Corporation (IFC)
To finance private (non-governmental)development projects
• International Development Agency (IDA)
Raises money from rich states to lend to poorest sates
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World Bank – How it works:
Repayment
Takes profits on loans and returns the original money to the lenders
Lending & Agreement
Lends raised money for long terms, asks for multiple partners to diversify the risk
Capital
Raises money on collateral (fund) – borrows from private and state lenders
• Banks borrowing costs are much lower than states
• Has a good capital raising and payment history
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World Bank – Enforcement:
• No legal authority like IMF over states policies
• No legal power to punish the deviant states
• Almost 50% projects continue for public good
• In the case of ineligibility & non-compliance:
States may not be able to take further loans (it depends)
• A huge amount of money (30%) goes to corruption
• $100b out of $400b since 1946 has been stolen
Violation of terms – Criminal Debt
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• Never defaulted on a World Bank loan
• Gave the lenders a satisfaction
• Borrowed money from IMF and World Bank
• For infrastructure and economic development projects
• In 2001, they defaulted to foreign creditors
• Though they continued to pay back loans to IMF and
World Bank, it still made both institutions cautious
Case Study – Argentina:
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• Since 1990s, Argentina has fixed exchange rate w.r.t. $
• Change in dollar brings change in local currency
• After increase in dollar, Argentinian currency increased
• Exports reduced and imports increased being cheap
Caused trade and payments balance to collapse
• Foreign debts increased and country was not able to pay
• Financial Panic started
Investors pulled their money, people ran to banks
Dollar reserves wiped out
Government had to put regulate money withdrawal
Case Study – Argentina:
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• New government came and halted foreign debt payments
• They negotiated new terms with IMF
Only option with IMF as credit rating and reputation had
already declined
IMF tarried to avoid an awkward situation that lender can be
controlled by the borrower in case of default
• Argentina regained stability
• Cost was massive devalued currency, 25% unemployment
and 50% population under poverty line
• Paid last repayment on January 2006
Case Study – Argentina:
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CONCLUSION
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• Pros
• Both institution help fight economic destabilization
• Have strong intellectual base and well defined goals
• Make a global social system of immediate rescue
• Help in development and fighting poverty
• Cons:
• Loose legal framework – easily leveraged
• Undermine sovereignty of the borrowers
• Represent the inequality among states – financial & political
• Possibility of corruption, financial pressure on public
Conclusion: