The IMF and the World Bank at Sixty

Ariel Buira is Director of the G24 Secretariat. He has been Special Envoy of the President of Mexico for the UN Conference on Financing for Development, Ambassador of Mexico, Member of the Board of Governors of the Bank of Mexico and Executive Director of the IMF. His publications include 'The IMF and the World Bank at Sixty' (Anthem Press, 2005) and 'Challenges to the World Bank and IMF: Developing Country Perspectives' (Anthem Press, 2003).

List of Contributors; Foreword; 1. Introduction; 2. The IMF at Sixty: An Unfulfilled Potential?; 3. Conditionality and Its Alternatives; 4. Mission Creep, Mission Push and Discretion: The Case of IMF Conditionality; 5. Up From Sin: A Portfolio Approach to Salvation; 6. Trip Wires and Speed Bumps: Managing Financial Risks and Reducing the Potential for Financial Crises in Developing Economies; 7. A Fiscal Insurance Scheme for the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union; 8. Who Pays fot the World Bank?; 9. Reinventing Industrial Strategy: The Role of Government Policy in Building Industrial Competitiveness; 10. Assessing the Risks in the Private Provision of Essential Services; 11. How Well Do Measurements of an Enabling Domestic Environment for Development Stand Up?; 12. The Cocoa Market Under Neoliberalism; Index