Introduction
Collective Surveillance: Rationale and Basic Questions
Venues for Intergovernmental Cooperation: General Considerations
Institutional Dimensions of Supranational Surveillance
The IMF and Other International Organizations as Traffic Monitors and Adjustment Referees
Soft or Hard Guidelines?
Improving Analytical Foundations
Dissemination of Information: Transparency versus Confidentiality
The Individual Nation's Choice of Exchange Regime
Guidelines for Cross-Border Financial Transactions
Use of Financial Sector Assessments in Broader Surveillance of a Nation's Economic Policies
Explicit Coordination of National Macroeconomic Policies?
Evolution of Macro-Surveillance for the World Economy
Lending Intermediation among National Governments: General Considerations
Lending Intermediation and Surveillance by the IMF
Should the IMF's Mandate Be Broadened?
IMF Lending Facilities
IMF Lending: An Overview
The IMF: Whose Institution?
IMF Governance: Distribution of Quotas, Voting Power, and Constituencies
Aggregate Size of IMF Resources
Concluding Perspective
Appendix Table. Distribution by Nation of Key Economic Variables
References
Index
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