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

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

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"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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,"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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India's move to buy gold from the IMF is also seen as part of an effort to assert its greater role in world economic affairs.

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It is the largest financial arrangement the IMF has made with a government so far.

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The only thing they have to pay on that is a regular interest charge to the IMF as a fee for the conversion of the currency,"

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"This could be taken care of easily at the Spring Meetings of the IMF.

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"It is very unlikely the IMF will allow the poorest countries in Africa or in South Asia or in Latin America to access the flexible credit line,"

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He said the G-20 agreement to provide more money to the IMF means that the lending agency will have the tools necessary to help countries in financial distress.

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We also need to restore confidence in the solidarity of the European Union to provide - especially the Eurozone - to provide the resources along with the IMF.

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Critics of the IMF say, however that they fear the agency will only provide credit lines to medium-sized economies, while poor countries who need them most will be left out.

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One is the issuing of $250 billion worth of the IMF reserve currency, called Special Drawing Rights, or SDRs, to nations needing funding against the effects of the global financial downturn.

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Mexico was the first country to qualify for the scheme last week, when the IMF agreed to provide it with up to $47 billion in emergency credit for a one-year period.

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