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The IMF and the politics of financial globalization : from the Asian crisis to a new international financial architecture? / Ben Thirkell-White.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: International political economy series | International political economy series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))Publication details: Basingstoke, [England] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.Description: xi, 278 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1403920788 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332/.042 22
LOC classification:
  • HG3881 .T487 2005
Review: "The Asian crisis, which began in 1997, triggered ongoing controversy over an appropriate role for the International Monetary Fund in managing financial globalization in emerging markets. This book argues for a more political approach to this debate. It places the crisis, and subsequent debates about a new international financial architecture, in the context of the political economy of financial governance since Bretton Woods. It draws out the links between domestic debates about IMF policy in Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea and the United States and the broader politics of IMF decision-making. It argues that the IMF's technocratic, decision-making arrangements help to forge an internal consensus on financial governance. However, they fail to give the IMF the political authority it needs to drive through the politically and socially sensitive 'good governance' policies that are central to its new role."--Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-268) and index.

"The Asian crisis, which began in 1997, triggered ongoing controversy over an appropriate role for the International Monetary Fund in managing financial globalization in emerging markets. This book argues for a more political approach to this debate. It places the crisis, and subsequent debates about a new international financial architecture, in the context of the political economy of financial governance since Bretton Woods. It draws out the links between domestic debates about IMF policy in Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea and the United States and the broader politics of IMF decision-making. It argues that the IMF's technocratic, decision-making arrangements help to forge an internal consensus on financial governance. However, they fail to give the IMF the political authority it needs to drive through the politically and socially sensitive 'good governance' policies that are central to its new role."--Book jacket.

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