Independent Evaluation Office, Annual Report 2003
Independent Evaluation Office, Annual Report 2003

Author: International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2003-12-17

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781589063198

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This first Annual Report describes the activities of the IEO through the first full year of operation. The report provides a summary of the main findings and recommendations of the first three evaluation projects on the prolonged use of IMF resources, the role of the IMF in recent capital account crises, and the role of fiscal adjustment in IMF-supported programs. It also indicates the status of ongoing evaluation projects, and discusses several common themes emerging from the IEO’s evaluations.

IEO Annual Report 2013
IEO Annual Report 2013

Author: International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2013-08-20

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 1484399285

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The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) evaluation on International Reserves: IMF Concerns and Country Perspectives was discussed by the Board in December 2012. This evaluation examined the IMF’s analysis of the effect of reserves on the stability of the international monetary system and its advice on reserve adequacy assessments in the context of bilateral surveillance. In the multilateral context, the evaluation acknowledged the IMF’s broader work stream on the international monetary system but noted that this work had not sufficiently informed the analysis and recommendations regarding reserves. The IEO evaluation of The Role of the IMF as Trusted Advisor was discussed by the Board in February 2013. This evaluation found that perceptions of the IMF had improved, but that they varied markedly by region and country type. Recognizing that there will always be an inherent tension between the IMF’s roles as a global watchdog and as a trusted advisor to member country authorities, the evaluation report explored how the IMF could sustain the more positive image it had achieved in the aftermath of the recent global crisis. The evaluation found that among key challenges facing the IMF were improving the value added and relevance of IMF advice and overcoming the perception of a lack of even-handedness.

Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century
Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century

Author: Debra P. Steger

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2010-05-06

Total Pages: 668

ISBN-13: 1554587956

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Two high-level commissions—the Sutherland report in 2004, and the Warwick Commission report in 2007—addressed the future of the World Trade Organization and made proposals for incremental reform. This book goes further; it explains why institutional reform of the WTO is needed at this critical juncture in world history and provides innovative, practical proposals for modernizing the WTO to enable it to respond to the challenges of the twenty-first century. Contributors focus on five critical areas: transparency, decision- and rule-making procedures, internal management structures, participation by non-governmental organizations and civil society, and relationships with regional trade agreements. Co-published with the International Development Research Centre and the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Recurring Issues from a Decade of Evaluation
Recurring Issues from a Decade of Evaluation

Author: International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2014-08-21

Total Pages: 61

ISBN-13: 1484376854

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This report seeks to help the IMF enhance its effectiveness by identifying major recurring issues from the IEO’s first 20 evaluations and assessing where they stand. The IMF’s core areas of responsibility are surveillance, lending, and capacity development. The aim of this report is to strengthen the follow-up process by focusing on key issues that recurred in IEO evaluations, rather than on specific recommendations on their implementation. The IEO believes that a framework of reviewing and monitoring recurring issues would be useful in establishing incentives for progress, strengthening the Board’s oversight, and providing learning opportunities for the IMF.

Losing the Global Development War
Losing the Global Development War

Author: John Warren Head

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 9004161880

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This book offers a new perspective in examining the key global economic organizations - the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank (and its regional counterparts), and the World Trade Organization. Aimed at ordinary informed readers, the text draws upon the author's many years of familiarity with these organizations to evaluate them from a legal and policy perspective, touching on issues of "mission creep," "democracy deficit," and more. The book depicts such issues as the central struggles in a "Global Development War" that is now being lost because of certain ideological and institutional failings that currently afflict the global institutions. That war can be won, the author asserts, only by adopting an ideology of liberal, intelligent, participatory, multilateral, and sustainable human development.

IEO Annual Report 2011
IEO Annual Report 2011

Author: International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2011-09-13

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 1616351551

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The Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) was established by the IMF’s Executive Board in 2001. It provides objective and independent evaluation of issues related to the IMF. The IEO operates independently of IMF management and at arm’s length from the IMF Executive Board. For more information on the IEO’s activities, visit the IEO website: www.ieo-imf.org.

Policing the Banks
Policing the Banks

Author: Maartje van Putten

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2008-11-20

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 0773585168

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Describing how formerly secretive financial institutions have been slow to accept responsibility for the consequences of their investments - especially the problems that can result from projects in developing countries - she shows that financing institutions can cause significant social and environmental damage and argues that new accountability mechanisms are necessary to reduce or prevent such damage. Because such institutions operate on a global scale, only semi-judicial accounting mechanisms can provide the necessary accountability. It is time for the private financial sector to follow multilateral financial institutions in creating independent mechanisms, mediation procedures, and access to decision makers for people harmed or potentially harmed by projects financed by their institutions.

IEO Annual Report 2004
IEO Annual Report 2004

Author: International Monetary Fund. Independent Evaluation Office

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2005-03-14

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1589064364

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The second Annual Report of the IEO summarizes the findings and recommendations of two completed evaluation projects: on the IMF’s experience with the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility and the role of the IMF in Argentina, 1991-2001. It also discusses the status of ongoing evaluations, and identifies potential candidates for the menu from which future IEO work programs will be chosen.