The International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Essay - 8 pages - International economy
As we are in a crisis period we thought that it would be interesting to understand the International Monetary Fund. The organization is one of the main elements which can solve the current crisis. Though the development of the IMF during recent years has shown a...
There is no meaningful role for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and /or the World Bank in a modern international financial system
Essay - 4 pages - Finance
IMF describes itself as "an organization of 184 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty".(IMF website) The...
Policies and analysis of the liberalization of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Thesis - 7 pages - International relations
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank were both formed at an international conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire (USA) in June 1944. The conference participants were keen to establish a framework for cooperation and economic development that would...
Assess the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in international politics and in influencing development in Latin America
Essay - 7 pages - Economy general
The first clause of the Articles of Agreement which form the bond member states are attached to under the IMF asserts that 'The International Monetary Fund was established operates in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement that was originally adopted and...
International Monetary Fund and its functioning
Thesis - 7 pages - Theories and economic notions
In 1853, Commodore Matthew C. Perry entered Japan and opened the country to international trade with the Western societies. Japan was then an ill-developed country, living according to its old traditions and religions. In 1868, a new Emperor from the Meiji dynasty, Mutsuhito, who was...
The action of the International Monetary Fund in the world
Internship report - 6 pages - International relations
“The International Monetary Fund is established and shall operate in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement as originally adopted and subsequently amended” asserts the first clause of the Articles of Agreement. Set up after the Second World War as a...
Rethinking Justiciability of Government Acts in International Relations: A Necessary Evolution for Fundamental Rights Protection
Essay - 5 pages - Administrative law
Discover the evolving landscape of government acts in international relations and their justiciability. Learn how the European Court of Human Rights' recent rulings are shaping the accountability of government decisions. Understand the implications of non-justiciability on fundamental...
The International Monetary system: history and characteristics
Essay - 9 pages - International economy
The International Monetary System' is an expression indicating all the rules elaborated by the countries to ensure, thanks to currency, a stabilization of the exchanges, and indicating the whole of the institutions charged to control and organize the monetary exchanges...
Comparison of the monetary policies of the American Federal fund (EDF) and the European Central bank (BCE)
Thesis - 7 pages - Economy general
Interest rates of the Fed are currently at an all-time low. The rates of the European Central Bank are at their lowest levels in history and on April 2, 2009, there was a further decline with a reduction to 1%.Indeed, monetary policy is an important instrument of control, and along with...
Markets and international funding
Thesis - 4 pages - Finance
The pioneers of growth in the industrialized world belong to the top economies. Globally, these companies have made their presence felt in developed and developing nations. We deal with the leading countries in the internationalization of trade which is a main source of global growth Investment...
Moneygram International: Case study of a fund transfer company - publié le 12/05/2009
Thesis - 9 pages - Finance
Moneygram Company was founded in 1940. Initially, the company was named Traveler's Express Company. In 1998, it acquired Moneygram Payment systems Inc (a company specialized in transfers of money) and then changed its name to Money gram International Inc in 2003. This acquisition was...
Moneygram International: Case study of a fund transfer company
Case study - 17 pages - Business strategy
Moneygram Company was founded in 1940. Initially, the company was named Traveler's Express Company. In 1998, it acquired Moneygram Payment systems Inc (a company specialized in transfers of money) and then changed its name to Money gram International Inc in 2003. This acquisition was...
International Institutions and Globalization
Course material - 2 pages - International economy
The role of international institutions such as the IMF and GATT in regulating globalization and trade, and their impact on economic stability and poverty reduction.
New Theories of International Trade
Essay - 7 pages - Theories and economic notions
Through this quotation from Joseph Stigltiz, co-prize winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on asymmetric information, we note the interconnection between countries that globalization brings about: with its advantages but also its disadvantages. A questioning of this process...
African Conflicts in International Relations - China in Africa : Political or Economic interests ?
Essay - 5 pages - International relations
China's involvement in Africa cannot be reduced to only one dimension. It would be an oversimplification to label the Chinese interests on the continent as either political or economic solely: these two aspects often constitute two faces of the same coin. China's increasing engagement in...
Monetary and macroeconomics interrelations between countries
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
International finance is a division of financial economic that deals with monetary and macroeconomics interrelations between countries. It is also referred as international macroeconomics. It involves the economic relations between different countries and involving how the...
International Finance and Investment-The Greece Debt Crisis
Case study - 21 pages - Educational studies
Human fallibility ripped off Greece the dignity accorded to its rich history as the economy has been marred with endless conflicts, whose effects spreads beyond its national frontiers. The events revealing themselves in the Greece economy have caught the entire Eurozone in denials and bargains of...
The instability of the international financial system and the proposals for reform proposals
Dissertation - 193 pages - Economy general
In 1997, an earthquake hit Asian stock exchanges, the shock wave reached Russia a year later, and then Latin America, including Brazil in 1999. To the world, these crises have been a succession of real and financial shocks of exceptional magnitude. Far from having exogenous origins, this global...
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs): Reactions of Developed Countries
Dissertation - 70 pages - Finance
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) have attracted increasing attention during the last few years, mainly due to their intervention in the rescue of the American and European financial systems. This intervention came at a time when the other financial systems were in a financial and economic...
How valid were Third World criticisms of international economy between 1945 and 1991?
Case study - 6 pages - Educational studies
With the end of the Second World War in 1945 came the reconstruction and development of the global economy via such pillars of multilateralism as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At this...
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs): Reactions of Developed Countries - published: 29/09/2010
Dissertation - 70 pages - Finance
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) have attracted increasing attention during the last few years, mainly due to their intervention in the rescue of the American and European financial systems. This intervention came at a time when the other financial systems were in a financial and economic...
International trade finance- 2004
Case study - 220 pages - Finance
Entrepreneurs often mention « lack of financing » as the main reason why an interesting transaction was not pursued or why a project could not be completed, why a company could not sustain its growth rate or why it failed. However, there are always two sides to a coin and bankers, lenders and...
The Argentina Crisis - The IMF's Guinea Pig
Essay - 12 pages - Economy general
In 2001, Argentina, the former model pupil of the International Monetary fund of the nineties, declared default in all its public debt. This is one of the most harrowing economic crises in the history of Argentina. Several crisis-fighting actions like the freezing of bank...
Is international cooperation for poor countries' development still efficient today ?
Essay - 3 pages - International economy
According to a recent official report of the OECD, the poor and very indebted countries are poorer today than twenty years ago. A second fact is that in the 1980's - twenty years ago - international organizations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary...
Improving the Tunisian financial market by adopting the international reference frame in terms of reporting with the aid of IAS/IFRS
Dissertation - 45 pages - Finance
The deterioration of the reputation of major players in financial markets (banking, insurance, financial institutions) has created a crisis of confidence without precedent with lasting consequences for all economic actors today and they are difficult to measure. In this context of high...
Contemporary international finance and East Asian economic integration - publié le 16/01/2009
Essay - 12 pages - Economy general
The “Current Account crisis” is a particular type of external debt crisis that affects mostly low-income developing countries. It is characterized by a huge deficit in the current account balance which provokes a Balance of payments deficit and a currency crisis. A current account...
Contemporary international finance and East Asian economic integration
Essay - 16 pages - Finance
The “Current Account crisis” is a particular type of external debt crisis that affects mostly low-income developing countries. It is characterized by a huge deficit in the current account balance which provokes a Balance of payments deficit and a currency crisis. A current account...
International economics: Essay on the advantages and disadvantages of globalization
Essay - 6 pages - Economy general
‘We are living a transformation which is going to reconstruct population and economy for the coming century. There will be no more national products and technologies, no more national firms, no more national industries, no more national economies. Only individuals, which constitute nations,...
International portfolio's diversification and stock markets volatility
Essay - 20 pages - Economy general
The current paper aims at studying the volatility of thirteen stock markets returns (mature and emerging) by means of ARCH models in order to see its effects on the potential gains of international diversification. Then, we identify the effects of the volatility's temporal variation on the...
International economics: essay on the advantages and disadvantages of globalisation
Essay - 6 pages - International economy
‘We are living a transformation which is going to reconstruct population and economy for the coming century. There will be no more national products and technologies, no more national firms, no more national industries, no more national economies. Only individuals, which constitute nations,...
