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Our Job Deficiency: A Challenge to the IMF-World Bank

April 29, 2013, Bessma Momani

The IMF has made a call against austerity with no success.

April 19, 2013, Domenico Lombardi, Los Angeles Times

Ultimately, if we are going to have legitimacy of [the IMF and World Bank], if we are going to have future funding, contribution and buy-in by the wealthiest countries, which will continue to be emerging market economies, we need to see this kind of reform [of giving more voting power to emerging nations] take place.

March 29, 2013, Bessma Momani , Voice of America

How African Governments Should Respond to the Impact of the U.S. Sequester

March 27, 2013, Julius Agbor and Brandon Routman

Cyprus II: Considerable Improvement, but Serious Risks Remain

March 25, 2013, Douglas J. Elliott

Is Russian Peter Being Used to Pay the Cypriot's Paul?

March 21, 2013, Bessma Momani

What's the Big Deal about Cyprus?

March 20, 2013, Michael W. Klein

Having spearheaded IMF reform efforts in the first place, the U.S. is now holding its completion back.

March 11, 2013, Domenico Lombardi, Financial Times

U.S. Needs to Show Egypt Some Tough Love

February 20, 2013, Robert Kagan and Michele Dunne

[Without U.S. approval] the whole effort to make the IMF a more accountable, more legitimate institution worldwide cannot really be fulfilled.

February 15, 2013, Domenico Lombardi, Bloomberg

IMF Concerned With the Pace of France’s Economic Reform

January 8, 2013, Domenico Lombardi

The IMF in Greece: Marking New Territory

November 26, 2012, Domenico Lombardi

The main risk for the IMF is that it comes to be seen as less relevant to the region [Southeast Asia], both in terms of the advice it has to offer and in its role as provider of a financial safety net.

November 14, 2012, Eswar Prasad, Bloomberg

The Economic Crisis May Be Over, but the World's Financial Institutions Still Aren't Protecting Us

November 11, 2012, Paul Blustein

IMF + ECB = OMT

November 2012, Domenico Lombardi

IMF Warns of Palestinian Authority's Financial Collapse

October 23, 2012, Khaled Elgindy

In addition to accepting a much more diluted influence among the G-20, Japan needs to adjust to the reality of no longer being the single most important power in Asia.

October 14, 2012, Domenico Lombardi, Wall Street Journal

The [International Monetary Fund's] executive board is really the policy-making body of the institution. If you have a stronger voice in the executive board, you end up affecting the policies and the program of the institution.

October 14, 2012, Domenico Lombardi, Bloomberg

Global Lenders Rebuild Identities After the Crisis

October 12, 2012, Eswar Prasad

Mass Protests in Greece Against Merkel

October 9, 2012, Daniel V. Speckhard

IMF 2012 Annual Meeting: Venturing Into Uncharted Waters

October 5, 2012, Domenico Lombardi

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We are very close to a full blown systemic crisis of the euro area and it is the IMF's duty to make sure the situation is stabilized. The conditions in which the IMF involvement will take place are extremely challenging and unprecedented. It puts the IMF at the heart of the euro area policymaking machinery.

October 2, 2012, Domenico Lombardi, Reuters

The question is: do these BRICs countries have enough in common to make [a BRICs development] bank instrumental to their objectives? They all have a huge need for infrastructure [investment] and share a dissatisfaction with the lending policies of the World Bank, so there’s a base on which they could build.

September 23, 2012, Domenico Lombardi, Financial Times

Estimating The Costs Of Financial Regulation

September 11, 2012, André Oliveira Santos and Douglas J. Elliott

The European Central Bank’s New Bond-Buying Program: Implications for Italy

September 11, 2012, Domenico Lombardi