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Money Talks: Supplementary Financiers and International Monetary Fund Conditionality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2003

Erica R. Gould
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What explains the changes in International Monetary Fund (IMF) conditionality? I argue that IMF conditionality agreements are influenced by supplementary financiers. The IMF regularly relies on external financing to supplement its loans to countries facing payments imbalances. As a result, these supplementary financiers are able to exercise leverage over the IMF and the design of its conditionality programs. I consider the influence of one type of supplementary financier, private financial institutions, on IMF conditionality. “Conclusions are supported by a data set of 249 conditionality arrangements, coded according to their terms, and two case studies.”

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International Organization , Volume 57 , Issue 3 , Summer 2003 , pp. 551 - 586
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 2003

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