TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vreeland, James Raymond
TI  - IMF and economic development
SN  - 978-0521016957
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Economic Development
KW  - Economic Policy
KW  - International Monetary Fund	
N1  - Rs.995/-; 1. Introduction; 2. Analytically significant cases; 3. An analytical approach to the politics of IMF agreements; 4. Testing the selection story; 5. The effect of IMF programs on economic growth; 6. Distributional consequences of IMF programs; 7. Conclusion; Appendices; References; Index
N2  - This book argues that governments enter IMF programs for economic and political reasons, and finds that the effects are negative. For certain constituencies, IMF policies dampen the effects of bad economic performance by redistributing income. But IMF programs lower growth and shift the income distribution upward
ER  -