International Monetary Fund

Debt And Dependency Are The IMF Legacy - Doug Bandow of the Cato Institute says that the IMF has failed to promote self-sustaining economic growth anywhere in the world. Instead, it has left debt and dependency in its wake.
http://www.cato.org/dailys/4-23-98.html

Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the IMF - The New Eagle offers a list of potential problems.
http://www.geocities.com/walrus95482/eagle2.html

United States - Capitalism's Controversial Clean-Up Crew - An article examining the IMF's pros and cons, including some history and perspective.
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/01/15/us/us.5.html

IMF and Structural Adjustment Policies - The IMF and World Bank structural adjustment policies have led to a spiraling race to the bottom for the developing countries that have followed their prescriptions, which require cutbacks on health, education and so on. Poverty as a result has soared.
http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/SAP.asp

The International Monetary Fund: Outdated, Ineffective, and Unnecessary - A May 1997 backgrounder by the Heritage Institute's Bryan T. Johnson, which covers much of the history and criticism of the IMF.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/BG1113.cfm

Asking the Right Questions About the IMF - The authors of this essay argue that the issue is not so much what the IMF should do, but what needs to be done and who can best do the job.
http://minneapolisfed.org/pubs/ar/1998/ar1998.cfm

International Financial Institutions Research Site - This site lists research materials on the international financial institutions, and in particular, the IMF and the World Bank. These lists are titles and publication information of print media, NOT links to articles themselves.
http://www.wellesley.edu/Economics/IFI

IMF's Four Steps to Damnation - Short article based on interview with Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank, now an outspoken critic of World Bank-style globalisation.
http://www.zmag.org/ParEcon/palastimf.htm