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December 2024
| Dear Reader,
A Digital Collection of the History of the IMF
This Essential Reading Guide is a curated list of publications and documents that provide insight into the history of the International Monetary Fund. The digital list includes the complete collection of the IMFâs official histories, which were each authored by the IMFâs Historian at the time, as well as other works that have recorded the IMFâs history for 80 years.
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 | Confronting Crisis
Global Cooperation and the International Monetary Fund
A history of the origins and 70-year history of the IMF as told in graphic novel form. The author, Joe Procopio, is an award-winning publisher and currently serves as a Communications Officer at the International Monetary Fund. The cartoonist, Nick Galifianakis, is an award-winning cartoonist whose nationally syndicated work accompanies the advice column by Carolyn Hax. READ MORE |
 | Finance and Development, June 2024: An IMF for Tomorrow
The June 2024 F&D issueâ¯illustrates how theâ¯Fundâ¯can continue to adapt to shifting realities and the changing needs of our members. Highlights of this issue includeâ¯IMFâ¯Managing Directorâ¯Kristalina Georgievaâsâ¯call for â21st century multilateralismâ âa framework for international cooperation that is more open and representative, with a better balance between advanced economies and the voices of emerging market and developing economies. READ MORE |
 | From Great Depression to Great Recession
The Elusive Quest for International Policy Cooperation
The global financial crisis and the ensuing Great Recession raised concerns about adjustment fatigue, deflation, currency wars, and secular stagnation that presented a sense of déjà vu: similar concerns had arisen at the time of the Great Depression and at the end of World War II. As with earlier crises, these concerns prompted calls for greater international policy cooperationâboth to achieve a sustainable recovery from the crisis and to prevent future crises. This volume compiles papers from a 2015 symposium of eminent scholars convened by the IMF to discuss how history can inform current debates about the functioning and challenges of the international monetary system. READ MORE |
 | IMF and the European Debt Crisis
This book explores the Fundâs engagement in Europe in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, and especially after 2010. It explores the big geopolitical debates about the appropriate role of the Fund in the aftermath of the global financial crisis and examines the intellectual and policy shifts that took place in the IMF as a result of the controversies about its European programs. READ MORE |
 | IMF and the Force of History
Events and Ideas That Have Shaped the Global Institution
From the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 to the Great Recession, this essay focuses on 11 events in history that have influenced the design and work of the IMF, as well as the international monetary system. This booklet, prepared for the 70th anniversary of the IMF, is an excerpt from a longer essay that is available on the IMF eLibrary. It is an excellent primer on the motivation behind the founding of the IMF and the evolution of the organization. READ MORE |
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