Comoros was also a member of the OAU, the EDF, the World Bank, the IMF, the IOC, and the African Development Bank.

It changed again one year later since the President Kim Young-sam was blamed by the citizen for the IMF.

In 2004, according to IMF estimates, GDP per capita in Eritrea was only US $ 130.

A GDP of $ 4 billion in fiscal year 2003 was recalculated by the IMF to $ 6. 1 billion, after adding proceeds from opium products.

The IMF estimated that real GDP was flat in FY 2003 and projected 1 % real GDP growth for FY 2004.

The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) is an international organization that was created on July 22, 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference and came into existence on December 27, 1945 when 29 countries signed the Articles of Agreement.

However, this was not ultimately successful and he eventually moved toward a new understanding with the IMF in 1989.

The credit line was approved after extensive consultations with the IMF in October and December 2010.

But the populace became increasingly dissatisfied with the austerity measures imposed by the IMF plan as well as their perception that the ruling elite was not subject to the same strictures.

In 1955 Stroessner fired the country's finance minister, who was unwilling to implement reforms, and in 1956 accepted an International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) stabilization plan that abolished export duties, lowered import tariffs, restricted credit, devalued the currency, and implemented strict austerity measures.

South Korea bounced back from the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis with assistance from the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), but its recovery was based largely on extensive financial reforms that restored stability to markets.

The estimation of the IMF was proven to be somewhat too pessimistic, as Spain's GDP sank less than that of most advanced economies in 2009 and by the first quarter of 2010 had already emerged from the recession.

Good progress was made under the Stand By Arrangement, which was resumed by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ).

The word " reserve " was later replaced with " special " because the idea that the IMF was creating a foreign exchange reserve asset was contentious.

In 2009, a SDR allocation was made to countries that had joined the IMF after the 1979 – 1981 round of allocations was complete ( and so had never been allocated any ).

By 2001, Togo was embarked on an IMF Staff Monitored Program designed to restore macroeconomic stability and financial discipline but without any new IMF resources pending new legislative elections.

The IMF was insisting that the Zambian government should introduce programs aimed at stabilizing the economy and restructuring it to reduce dependence on copper.

There was disagreement both over the SDR proposal and between those within G77 who wanted fundamental changes such as a change in the voting allocations in the South's favour at the IMF, and those ( mainly the Latin American countries ) who wanted much milder reforms.

The IMF and the World Bank now relate to the Republic of Kosovo as their counterpart and no longer UNMIK as was the case before membership since the 1999 conflict.

On the evening of 21 November 2010, Cowen confirmed that Ireland had formally requested financial support from the European Union's European Financial Stability Facility ( EFSF ) and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), after long resisting pressure from other eurozone nations, particularly France and Germany.

On 30 September 2007, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was formally named as the new head of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ).

UNCTAD grew from the view that existing institutions like GATT ( now replaced by the World Trade Organization, WTO ), the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), and World Bank were not properly organized to handle the particular problems of developing countries.

The IMF is also assigned to bring down corrupt politicians and dictators of Third World countries uninvolved in the Cold War, such as a particularly brutal practitioner of apartheid, or corrupt Central or South American nations, as well as organized crime figures, corrupt businessmen and politicians in the US.

This would manifest itself the following year with the IMF battling organized crime in most episodes, though this season still featured more international forays than not.

In December, The de la Rua government announced a $ 40 billion multilateral assistance package organized by IMF.

* Before the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, there were large organized protests against the 1988 World Bank / IMF meetings in Berlin.

Common targets include the World Bank ( WB ), International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) and free trade treaties like the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ), Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ), the Multilateral Agreement on Investment ( MAI ) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services ( GATS ).

The United States has encouraged Belarus to conclude and adhere to agreements with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on the program of macroeconomic stabilization and related reform measures, as well as to undertake increased privatization and to create a favorable climate for business and investment.

The IMF loan, approved on September 26, is designed to support Bosnia's economic programme for the next two years, ease the effects of the “ external environment and address domestic structural weaknesses ”.

In July 1998, the UDF-led government and the IMF reached agreement on a 3-year loan worth about $ 800 million, which replaced the 14-month stand-by agreement that expired in June 1998.

The World Bank and IMF are now encouraging the government to concentrate exclusively on implementing much-needed economic reforms to jump-start the economy and defining its fundamental priorities with the aim of alleviating poverty.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.

A number of International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank missions have met with the new government to help it develop a coherent economic plan but associated reforms are on hold.

* Voted NO on $ 156M to IMF for 3rd-world debt reduction.

It also serves on the World Trade Organization ( WTO ), in addition to the Interamerican Development Bank ( IDB ), World Bank, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), Corporacion Andina de Fomento ( CAF ) and other multilateral agencies.

IMF missions ( related to the now lapsed EFF program ) have criticized the government for over-spending on off-budget items ( in good years and bad ), over-borrowing from the Central Bank, and slipping on the schedule for privatization and administrative reform.

In 1997, an IMF mission to Gabon criticized the government for overspending on off-budget items, over-borrowing from the central bank, and slipping on its schedule for privatization and administrative reform.

A 2007 IMF report on the regulatory environment and anti-money laundering has once again endorsed Gibraltar ’ s robust regulatory environment.

Government agreement with the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on a staff monitored program ( SMP ), followed by its payment of its $ 32 million arrears to the IDB in July, paved the way for renewed IDB lending.

Flores inaugurated International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) programs of reform and modernization of the Honduran Government and economy, with emphasis on maintaining the country's fiscal health and improving international competitiveness.

In October 1997, Indonesia and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) reached agreement on an economic reform program aimed at macroeconomic stabilization and elimination of some of the country's most damaging economic policies, such as the National Car Program and the clove monopoly, both involving family members of President Soeharto.

In August 1998, Indonesia and the IMF agreed on an Extended Fund Facility ( EFF ) under President B. J Habibie that included significant structural reform targets.

There were two views on the role the IMF should assume as a global economic institution at the Bretton Woods Conference.

American delegate Harry Dexter White foresaw an IMF that functioned more like a bank, making sure that borrowing states could repay their debts on time.

The IMF insisted that the Zambian government should focus on stabilizing the economy and restructuring it to reduce dependence on copper.