IMF In The Economic Globalization

This thesis explores the IMF as an essential global regime and its functions, deficiency and interactions with other economic regimes such as the World Bank, and attempts to reevaluate the critics on IMF by retracing the IMF's developments in the globalization process.This thesis consists of three sections apart from introduction.The necessity of exploring this subject, its present researching stages and my narrative framework contribute mainly to the content of introduction.The first chapter, IMF in A Changing Global Economic System, namely, puts IMF into the economic globalization and thereafter its institutional and operational adaptation, which results from the impact of economic globalization and ensuing systematic redeployment in deferent periods. The post-war global economy witnesses the collapse of the Gold Standard and its imbalance. The Brtten Woods System, which stems from the conflicts between US and UK on their rebuilding plans, gives a timely birth to IMF. The dollar crisis happening in 1960' brings great impacts on IMF. IMF promotes its interrelations with globalization through meeting the challenges and redressing itself. It's fair to say this period marks the enhancement of IMF. Catastrophe since Jamaica System makes a compelling factor for IMF to accommodate itself to the internationally financial disorder. The relationship between globalization and IMF attains further enhancement. Constant economic crisis during the nineteen eighties and nineties offers fresh fuel to IMF.The second chapter is named by IMF As a Global Regime, explores the globalization and IMF from the angle of global regime. Firstly, the necessity of IMF is illustrated by its five basic factors. Secondly, the organizational traits unfold the still functions of IMF, and then the lessons in crisis uncover its dynamic functions. Finally, a comparative study on IMF and the World Bank will demonstrate the unique features of IMF.The third chapter is Critics on IMF. Such critics embody the relations of economic globalization and IMF. Critics on globalization are externalized to them on IMF. Among them are dominated by the anti-neo-liberalism and anti-globalization at...