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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 191 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.
Christine Lagarde - President of the European Central Bank, first female head of the IMF [1]; Eswar Prasad - Professor at Cornell University; Kenneth Rogoff – Author, former IMF Chief Economist, Professor at Harvard University, Grandmaster (chess)
Gita Gopinath (born 8 December 1971) [1] is an Indian-American economist who has served as the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), since 21 January 2022. She had previously served as chief economist of the IMF between 2019 and 2022.
See the The Wikipedia Library Card Platform for currently available partners. The International Monetary Fund is an international US-based organization of 188 countries focused on international trade, financial stability, and economic growth.
The United Kingdom on a map. The United Kingdom joined the IMF on December 27, 1945, becoming one of the first 40 nations to join the global organization. [1] [2] [non-primary source needed] The intention of the IMF was to help rebuild the economies' of Europe following World War II and promote the missions of global cooperation and economic growth established at the Bretton Woods Conference.
The World Bank is the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA), two of five international organizations owned by the World Bank Group. It was established along with the International Monetary Fund at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference. After a slow start ...
The IFS is the IMF’s principal statistical publication, covering numerous topics of international and domestic finance. It includes, for most countries, data on exchange rates, balance of payments, international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, prices, etc. [2] Most annual data begins in 1948, quarterly and monthly data dates back to 1957, and most balance of payments data ...
The IMF and World Bank meet each autumn in what is officially known as the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group and each spring in the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group. Names of the two groups are alternated each year so a different one has top billing.