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The IMF thus agreed to restart the flow of the 'finance pump' on condition that the concerned countries first use this money to reimburse banks and other private lenders, while restructuring their economy at the IMF's discretion: these were the famous conditionalities, detailed in the Structural Adjustment Programmes.
The IMF and World Bank (two Bretton Woods institutions) require borrowing countries to implement certain policies in order to obtain new loans (or to lower interest rates on existing ones). These policies are typically centered around increased privatization , liberalizing trade and foreign investment, and balancing government deficit. [ 2 ]
The International Monetary Fund plans on achieving their goal by providing primary health care to low income families and improve sanitation conditions. [2] Moreover, the International Monetary Fund plans to encourage government spending by 15% of their GDP and increase social and infrastructural spending.
The IMF sees the global economy expanding 3.2% this year, as it forecast in April. But the agency downgraded its forecast for US growth to 2.6% — 0.1 percentage point lower than projected in April.
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Greece has signed two loan agreements with the IMF: a Stand-By Arrangement from 2010 to 2012 and an agreement under the Extended Fund Facility from 2012 to 2016, borrowing a total of 27,766.3 million SDR. [4] Greece owes the IMF 6,735.64 million SDR, [4] and is the fund's third-largest borrower (after Argentina and Ukraine). [5]
The IMF lifted its forecast for the euro area this year by a tenth of a percent to 0.9%, driven by stronger momentum in services in the first half of the year. Growth is projected to rise to 1.5% ...
During 2010, the IMF had to use its economic bailout capacity to support Ireland and other European Union Member nations as a result of the economic fallout following the Great Recession. During the recession and the subsequent Post-2008 Irish banking crisis the economy went into an economic downfall which led to economic and political turmoil ...