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1 International Monetary Fund

2 INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND What IMF do The IMF promotes international monetary cooperation and exchange rate stability, facilitates the balanced growth of international trade, and provides resources to help members in balance of payments difficulties or to assist with poverty reduction.

3 INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Membership The IMF has 186 member countries. It is a specialized agency of the United Nations but has its own charter, governing structure, and finances. Its members are represented through their relative size in the global economy.

4 INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND How IMF do it Through its economic surveillance, the IMF keeps track of the economic health of its member countries, alerting them to risks on the horizon and providing policy advice. It also lends to countries in difficulty, and provides technical assistance and training to help countries improve economic management. This work is backed by IMF research and statistics.

5 INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND The IMF works with other international organizations[Collaborating with others]to promote growth and poverty reduction.Collaborating with others

6 Key IMF activities The IMF supports its membership by providing: policy advice to governments and central banks based on analysis of economic trends and cross-country experiences; research, statistics, forecasts, and analysis based on tracking of global, regional, and individual economies and markets; loans to help countries overcome economic difficulties;

7 concessional loans to fight poverty in developing countries; and technical assistance and training to help countries improve the management of their economies.

8 Objectives Enhancing IMF lending facilities Strengthening the monitoring of global, regional, and country economies Helping resolve global economic imbalances Analyzing capital market developments Assessing financial sector vulnerabilities Working to cut poverty. Improving IMF governance Greater accountability and transparency

9 Functions Surveillance The IMF promotes economic stability and global growth by encouraging countries to adopt sound economic and financial policies. To do this, it regularly monitors global, regional, and national economic developments. It also seeks to assess the impact of the policies of individual countries on other economies.promotes economic stability

10 Functions Technical assistance and training IMF offers technical assistance and training to help member countries strengthen their capacity to design and implement effective policies. Technical assistance is offered in several areas, including fiscal policy, monetary and exchange rate policies, banking and financial system supervision and regulation, and statistics.technical assistance

11 Functions Lending Research and data

12 World Trade Organizations The WTO was established on 01/01/1995. Moto : “Strengthen the world economy and lead to more trade, investment, employment and income growth throughout the world.” It is the successor to the GAAT.

13 Objectives Raising the Standard of living of the people. Providing Employment. Expanding Trade and Commerce. Optimum utilization of the resources. Sustainable Development of the countries.


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