Imf's Contribution in Bangladesh
Towards the end of the Second World War, in July 1944, representatives of the United States, Great Britain, France, Russia, and 40 other countries met at Bretton Woods, a resort in New Hampshire, to lay the foundation for the post-war international financial order. Such a new system, they hoped, would prevent another worldwide economic cataclysm like the Great Depression that had destabilized Europe and the United States in the 1930s and had contributed to the rise of Fascism and the war. Therefore, the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, as the Bretton Woods conference was officially called, created the International Monetary Fund (the IMF) to prevent economic crises and to rebuild economies shattered by the war.
The IMF would be aimed at stabilizing global financial markets and national currencies by providing the resources to establish secure monetary policy and exchange rate regimes, in reconstruction and development.
The IMF was conceived in July 1944, when representatives of 45 governments meeting in the town of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in the northeastern United States, agreed on a framework for international economic cooperation. They believed that such a framework was necessary to avoid a repetition of the disastrous economic policies that had contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s
Most of the IMF's loans to low-income countries are made on concessional terms, under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility. They are intended to ease the pain of the adjustments these countries need to make to bring their spending in line with their income and to promote reforms that foster stronger, sustainable growth and poverty reduction. An IMF loan also encourages other lenders and donors to provide additional financing, by signaling that a country's policies are appropriate.
The IMF is not a development institution. It does not—and, under its Articles of Agreement, it cannot—provide loans to help poor countries build their physical
The IMF would be aimed at stabilizing global financial markets and national currencies by providing the resources to establish secure monetary policy and exchange rate regimes, in reconstruction and development.
The IMF was conceived in July 1944, when representatives of 45 governments meeting in the town of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in the northeastern United States, agreed on a framework for international economic cooperation. They believed that such a framework was necessary to avoid a repetition of the disastrous economic policies that had contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s
Most of the IMF's loans to low-income countries are made on concessional terms, under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility. They are intended to ease the pain of the adjustments these countries need to make to bring their spending in line with their income and to promote reforms that foster stronger, sustainable growth and poverty reduction. An IMF loan also encourages other lenders and donors to provide additional financing, by signaling that a country's policies are appropriate.
The IMF is not a development institution. It does not—and, under its Articles of Agreement, it cannot—provide loans to help poor countries build their physical