Stephanie Rickard is an expert on the IMF and World Bank at the London School of Economics.

VOA: special.2011.05.20

The IMF credited expansion in Asia and growing demand in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

"But the actual negotiations of the loan conditions on the ground is done by technocratic economists, staff members at the IMF, and they're going to continue to do their job."

VOA: special.2011.05.20

But IMF deputy managing director John Lipsky warns that the decline is likely to continue for several more months.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

He says rich countries should channel their financial reserves held with the IMF into developing countries' green investment projects.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

They pledged more resources to the IMF to help countries in distress and promised to avoid restrictions on trade.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

The new money will bolster the IMF, enabling it to quickly respond to the financing needs of member countries in financial distress.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

The $250 billion increase is part of a plan to triple IMF resources over the next few years.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

The IMF would distribute SDRs to states according to the size of their voting shares within the institution.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

Soros says his plan to finance the shift with IMF funds has been well received by international governments.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

The IMF also has a program called the Flexible Credit Line, which grants emergency loans to countries with strong financial track records.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

And while Europe wants to double the IMF's resources to $500 billion, Washington is pushing for a higher increase of $750 billion.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Greece has already asked to access a joint European Union-IMF aid package worth as much as $60 billion.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

There is speculation that other Central Banks, including the China's, would buy the rest of the gold the IMF plans to sell.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

"Provide more funding to the IMF and maybe boosting the role of the IMF in the crisis,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

a coordinator of the Bretton Woods Project, a group that monitors IMF efforts to help developing nations.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

but is not likely the IMF will allow the poorest countries to access the flexible credit line,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

Opinion polls show the majority of Greeks are against an IMF-EU bailout, seeing it as foreign interference.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who noted the crucial role Asia is playing in a post recessionary world.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

The billionaire philanthropist Soros says the money needed to help poor countries tackle climate change should come from the International Monetary Fund,or IMF.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Speaking to reporters, IMF chief Dominique Strauss Kahn said he remains confident a solution will be found.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

He said the program will be funded by some of the $500 billion promised to the IMF at the Group of 20 summit.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

The IMF expects growth to accelerate in the poorest regions in Africa as the global recession eases.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Analysts say the country needs to adopt the 2010 budget to resume cooperation with the IMF and pay for natural gas imports from Russia.

VOA: standard.2010.02.14

The IMF says it has confidence in all three countries because of their solid economic records.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

India has snapped up nearly half the precious metal the IMF is selling to shore up its finances and increase lending to developing countries.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

India,along with China, has been lobbying for larger representation in the IMF, and has promised to augment its resources for lending to developing countries.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

He says bigger industrialized economies, which have a larger percentage of votes on the IMF's executive board, would receive more SDRs than poorer countries.

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

The semi-annual IMF economic forecast, which is due to be released next week, says that the current recession will likely be unusually long and severe.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16