International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde talks about uncertainty surrounding "Brexit" debate in the U.K. and the top geopolitical risks she sees for 2016. She speaks with Francine Lacqua on "The Pulse." Published April 5, 2016
IMF Spring Meetings, Washington, D.C., April 15-17, 2016:
G20 finance ministers gather in Washington to discuss world economy problems, earnings season begins for the troubled US banking sector, and GDP data will focus concern on China's cooling growth prospects. Seb Morton-Clark reports for FT.com (April 10, 2016).
International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C., commonly referred to as the IMF, also known as the Fund, was conceived at a UN conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States, in July 1944. The 44 countries at that conference sought to build a framework for economic cooperation to avoid a repetition of the competitive devaluations that had contributed to the Great Depression of the 1930s. The IMF's responsibilities: The IMF's primary purpose is to ensure the stability of the international monetary system—the system of exchange rates and international payments that enables countries (and their citizens) to transact with each other. The Fund's mandate was updated in 2012 to include all macroeconomic and financial sector issues that bear on global stability.
IMF Governance structure: Board of Governors
Domain: imf.org
Official language: English
Membership: 188 countries
Parent organization: United Nations
IMF -- About: "The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 188 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world. Created in 1945, the IMF is governed by and accountable to the 188 countries that make up its near-global membership."
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