The economic crisis that struck in 2008 challenged many myths. One of them is the myth of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as a global agent of economic orthodoxy. Since the 1970s, the IMF ...

The Washington food crisis consensus Did following the advice of the IMF and World Bank in the 1990s set poor countries up for a big fall when grain prices spiked a decade later?

The 1990s was the era of the Washington Consensus—a suite of reforms, including privatization and open trade, that the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and U.S. Treasury Department ...

At IMF, the hunt for a new consensus. March 7, 2011. By Howard Schneider. It was a fitting eulogy for the economic orthodoxy that once governed the world, given by one of the men who helped ...

The Washington Consensus Works. ByTim Worstall, ... The coinage was in 1989, from the policy ideas that had been bubbling around the IMF, World Bank and so on in the 1980s.

The massive U.S. tax and spending bill slated for a final vote in Congress runs counter to the International Monetary Fund's ...

The IMF takes a benign view of US President Joe Biden’s mammoth $1.9tn rescue package Like other forecasters, it expects US national income to be higher next year than expected before the pandemic.

MD Kristalina Georgieva conversation with World Bank’s David Malpass (CC - Flickr - IMF) There is much talk among ‘progressive’ economists that the IMF and the World Bank have turned over a new leaf.

There is a new consensus on Puerto Rico among Washington entities that is similar to the old Washington Consensus, created roughly 30 years ago, on the rest of the world: Local governments are ...