IMF
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- noun
- /aɪ ɛm ɛf/
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Fondo Monetario Internacional
- The IMF plays a crucial role in providing financial assistance to countries in debt.
- an IMF loan
- an IMF program
- IMF conditionality
It might only come from the IMF if they can get their act together.
- It might only come from the IMF if they can get their act together.
- They go to the IMF, for example, to get advice.
- There are two types of IMF program, funded and unfunded.
- But there are very few people outside the IMF who actually understand what they do.
- That's according to the IMF, which is a pro western institution.
- Pakistan, Ghana, Egypt and Tunisia are all in rescue talks with the IMF right now.
- But I do know that he and George Shultz called for the abolition of IMF and the World Bank.
- The Bretton Woods system as we know it today was instead the World Bank, the IMF and so forth.
- And then the reserve asset becomes the SDR, which is the currency of the IMF.
- We believe that a greater role for China in the institutions of global governance, such as the IMF was desirable.
- Now the mistake that we made and I don't still don't understand why is that we allow that to be freely, you know, part of the IMF's basket of currencies, right?
- That is an approach that the IMF quote strongly endorses because higher inflation drives higher mortgage rates.
- That's nominal GDP per capita according to the IMF.
Examples
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Ukraine needs a budget that's consistent with your IMF commitments.
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The presence of the IMF does not spare them from these bleak consequences.
Academic text (1999) -
But there are very few people outside the IMF who actually understand what they do.
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And so we are looking at this IMF program.
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The world needs the IMF.
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Is the existence of the IMF in this decade a statement that the market is a failure?
Academic text (1999) -
An agreement that Indonesia and the IMF struck in early 1998 was a defining moment of the crisis.
Academic text (2011) -
That's according to the IMF, which is a pro western institution.
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Therefore, according to Fischer, the IMF has the capacity to act as a crisis lender to individual countries.
Academic text (1999) -
Welcome to the IMF.
Synonyms
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An international organization that lends money and gives advice to countries with financial problems
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3.5
A group of countries and people from different nations who work together on common problems
Surface Forms
Morphology
IMF = I + M + F
The headword is an initialism; the component letters do not convey the meaning 'International Monetary Fund' to an average learner, so knowledge of the parts does not help infer the meaning.
Etymology
IMF stands for International Monetary Fund. The three parts are International meaning 'between countries', Monetary meaning 'money', and Fund meaning 'a pool of money', so the IMF is a group where countries work together on money and give help when a country has money problems.