The IMF helps its members by providing technical assistance, training, and knowledge-sharing to improve their economic policies and make their institutions more effective. Strengthening the capacity ...

Or even when the IMF's own research shows that programmes failed or programme objectives remained "often ambiguous", it calls for more "reforms" and tighter surveillance. In the few cases when the IMF ...

In many countries, austerity is a hard sell. Loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) can provide economic stabilization and financial support for developing countries—with conditions.