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Pressures to adjust balance of payments disequilibria: an analysis of the powers of the International Monetary Fund

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In view of recent proposals to grant the International Monetary Fund new instruments to press countries to adjust balance of payments disequilibria, the question arises of the efficacy of such means of pressure. An analysis of the Fund's power shows, inter alia, that conditions attached to currency purchases by deficit countries can only influence the techniques of adjustment but not the length of the adjustment period, that it is normally not possible for the Fund to expose individual surplus countries to inflationary or expansionary pressures, that the scarce currency clause is unworkable in present monetary conditions, and that the Fund's system of charges and remunerations cannot be used to exert financial pressure on countries in imbalance. The general avoidance of sanctions by the Fund's Executive Directors suggests that it would only be useful to make additional pressures available to the Fund, as contemplated by the Committee of Twenty, if the authority to take decisions on sanctions were transferred to a separate judicial or quasi-judicial body.

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  • Roessler, Frieder, 1976. "Pressures to adjust balance of payments disequilibria: an analysis of the powers of the International Monetary Fund," International Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 30(3), pages 433-452, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:cup:intorg:v:30:y:1976:i:03:p:433-452_01
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