By contrast, most IMF staff seem genuinely depressed by Rato s departure.

Sources Bank of the Republic of Haiti and IMF staff projections.

13 IMF Bolivia Ex Post Assessment of Longer Term Program Engagement, Staff Report, April 2005.

The IMF, with its universal membership, is more representative, and it has a larger expert staff.

Fortunately, the IMF opened the door to discussion of this issue in a recent staff position paper.

This would make the IMF staff more cognizant of the value of local knowledge relative to theoretical expertise.

So what to do? Recently, I attended an IMF organized workshop in Beijing that brought together Chinese officials, academics, international analysts, and IMF staff to discuss how best to catalyze household consumption in China.

A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) visited the country in the first half of March to negotiate a staff monitored programme with the national authorities.

But why the FSB should head up this process is far from clear. The IMF, with its universal membership, is more representative, and it has a larger expert staff.

Strengthening IMF Surveillance

The New IMF

The Next IMF

Don t Fear the IMF

Banking on the IMF

Europe in the IMF

Set the IMF Free

The IMF after DSK

That is the IMF.

The IMF Does Europe

IMF International Monetary Fund

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Will Cuba Rejoin the IMF?

How the IMF Failed Greece

An IMF We Can Love?

Eurozone Chutzpah and the IMF

High Noon at the IMF

The IMF offers that venue.

The IMF must change this.

The IMF and Global Coordination

The IMF Beyond The Crisis

Who Should Lead the IMF?

6 Washington, D.C., IMF, 1993.

The obvious someone is the IMF.

Reform and Renewal at the IMF

Super Sizing the IMF is Wrong

The IMF as Global Financial Anchor

Will Greece Go To the IMF?

The IMF has been criticized for burdening borrowers with unnecessary and sometimes perverse lending conditions, but its highly qualified staff has not been shy in blowing the whistle when it perceived domestic vulnerabilities in other countries.

To receive loans from the IMF, countries must have certain good governance policies, as determined by the IMF, in place.

But the crisis has invigorated the IMF.

Can Asia Free Itself from the IMF?

Can the IMF Avert a Global Meltdown?

Could the IMF Have Prevented This Crisis?

The IMF cannot substitute for governments choices.

On this, the IMF is partly right.