IMF involvement in international trade policy issues
Subtitle: evaluation report
By: [prepared by Susan Schadler, Ling Hui Tan and Seok-Hyun Yoon; Independent Evaluation Office]
Contributors: International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office
Series: Evaluation report; Evaluation report (International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office)
Publisher: Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781589068674
Other titles: International Monetary Fund involvement in international trade policy issues
Description: Trade policy occupies an unusual and at times problematic place in the work of the IMF. Though trade policies of IMF members have strong influences on macroeconomic stability, they are often seen as peripheral to the IMF's core competency. This evaluation, which examines the IMF's involvement in trade policy issues during 1996-2007, addresses five questions: What is the nature of the IMF's mandate to cover trade policy? Did the IMF work effectively with other international organizations on trade policy issues? Did the Executive Board provide clear guidance to staff on the IMF's role and approach to trade policy? How well did the IMF address trade policy issues through lending arrangements and surveillance? Was IMF advice effective? The evaluation finds that the IMF's role in trade policy has evolved in some desirable and some less desirable ways and recommends how to use the limited resources the IMF can devote to trade policy to fill these gaps.--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: What is the nature of the IMF's mandate to cover trade policy?; title: Institutional architecture for trade policy: how well has cooperation worked?; title: The IMF's evolving role in trade policy: how was the process guided?; title: IMF advice on trade policy: how well was the approach carried out?; title: How effective was the IMF's work on trade policy issues?