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Institutional power file · IMF

International Monetary Fund

How quotas, surveillance, lending and programme conditions give the IMF influence in economic crises.

Power mechanisms

Where authority actually moves

01Quota voting
02Surveillance
03Crisis lending
04Programme conditionality

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Primary sourceIMF: Governance↗Primary sourceIMF: Quotas↗
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