Statement by the Managing Director on the Work Program of the Executive Board - Executive Board Meeting - October 31, 2011

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2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 (90) ◽  
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Global Economy ◽  
International Monetary System ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Board Meeting ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
Insightful Analysis ◽  
New Phase

The global economy has entered a dangerous new phase with severe downside risks. The Fund has been called by the IMFC to contribute to an orderly resolution of these tensions, and the membership must be prepared for bold action. Our first responsibility is to help develop and coordinate solutions to immediate threats to global stability, in particular to provide insightful analysis and policy advice to address fiscalfinancial vulnerabilities and rekindle growth and job creation. Yet we must also be prepared to fortify the global financial safety net. Secondly, we must redouble efforts to make the international monetary system (IMS) stronger in the longer term—through more effective surveillance and a clearer shared vision of the system’s key underpinnings.

Statement by the Managing Director on the Work Program of the Executive Board - Executive Board Meeting, June 3, 2015

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2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (13) ◽  
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Financial Risk ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
International Monetary System ◽  
Growth Potential ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
Fiscal Adjustment ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Monetary Policy Effectiveness

The Managing Director’s Global Policy Agenda (GPA) presented to the IMFC in April identified a range of actions needed to bolster today’s actual and tomorrow’s potential output, diminish risks, and confront emerging global challenges. These actions included calibrating fiscal adjustment to economic conditions while establishing credible long-term fiscal frameworks and implementing growth-friendly fiscal policies, improving monetary policy effectiveness while containing excessive financial risk-taking, and accelerating structural reforms to raise growth potential and ensure inclusiveness. The GPA also outlined how the Fund would support the membership through assessments and policy advice provided in the context of multilateral and bilateral surveillance, financial support, and capacity building. This document translates the policy priorities laid out in the GPA and the IMFC communiqué into a work agenda for the Executive Board over the next 12 months. In particular, the Board will be engaged on several issues of multilateral scope, including quota reform and resources, the SDR basket review, challenges facing the international monetary system, and the post-2015 global development agenda. The work program also includes several items from the action plan of the 2014 Triennial Surveillance Review (TSR).

Statement by the Managing Director on the Work Program of the Executive Board - Executive Board Meeting - June 19, 2017

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2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (39) ◽  
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Global Economy ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Board Meeting ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Balanced Growth ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Global Challenges

This Work Program (WP) translates the policy priorities and strategic directions laid out in the Spring 2017 Global Policy Agenda (GPA) and the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) Communiqué into an Executive Board agenda for the next twelve months. The Managing Director’s GPA, welcomed by the IMFC, called on members to continue using supportive policies based on a three-pronged approach to sustain the recovery, to work together within the multilateral framework toward strong and more balanced growth, and to provide economic opportunities for all. It outlined how the Fund would support the membership by promoting efforts to sustain the recovery, lift productivity and increase resilience, and by promoting sustainable policies toward a more inclusive global economy, while facilitating multilateral solutions to global challenges. Where the work extends beyond traditional areas, the WP will focus on macro-relevant issues that are systemically important or relevant for many countries and amenable to change through economic policies.

scholarly journals Statement by the Managing Director on the Work Program of the Executive Board - Executive Board Meeting - June 3, 2013

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2013 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
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Global Economy ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Growth Path ◽  
Board Meeting ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Balanced Growth ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Balanced Growth Path ◽  
Sustainable Recovery

From stabilization to growth. The Global Policy Agenda (GPA) presented to the IMFC during the 2013 Spring Meetings charted a range of actions needed to invigorate a sustainable recovery and to make the global economy more resilient. The GPA also outlined how the Fund can best assist members in placing the global economy on a sustained and balanced growth path. This work program translates the policy priorities laid out in the GPA into the agenda for the Fund over the next six to twelve months. Progress on commitments outlined at the Spring Meetings will be assessed in the Fall GPA, which will also detail policy directions for the Fund and the membership.

Statement by the Managing Director on the Work Program of the Executive Board Executive Board Meeting

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2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (59) ◽  
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Global Economy ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Board Meeting ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Increase Productivity ◽  
Governance Reforms

This Work Program (WP) translates the strategic directions and policy priorities laid out in the Fall 2017 Global Policy Agenda (GPA) and the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) Communiqué into an Executive Board agenda for the next twelve months, with a focus on the next six months. The Managing Director’s GPA, fully supported by the IMFC, called on members to take advantage of the window of opportunity from the more favorable conjuncture to tackle key policy challenges by undertaking well-sequenced reforms to increase productivity, reduce policy uncertainty and future risks, and improve governance. Reforms should also aim to harness the benefits of technology and economic integration and ensure that their benefits are widely shared. Tackling challenges to the global economy continues to require cooperation and joint action across the membership.

Statement by the Managing Director on the Work Program of the Executive Board - Executive Board Meeting

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Vol 2012 (39) ◽  
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Global Economy ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Board Meeting ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Financial Policies ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Work Plan ◽  
Economic Transitions ◽  
Development Agendas ◽  
Important Milestone

Agenda. Last April was an important milestone for the institution. The commitment to increase Fund resources by over $430 billion on a temporary basis attests to the membership’s willingness to act collectively and decisively to get ahead of the crisis. For our part, we must continue to support these efforts with clear and pointed advice on macro financial policies, and strong and well-designed programs. This is true not only for Europe, where the risks to stability have been acute, but across the span of the membership. We need to continue to offer pragmatic remedies to the main risks confronting the global economy, help members address spillovers, and support their economic transitions and development agendas. We need also to strengthen our internal processes, with reforms of surveillance, quotas and governance. These points, which draw on my Action Plan of last month and feedback from members during the Spring Meetings, are elaborated in the work plan below

Thirteenth General Review of Quotas - Assessing the Adequacy of IMF Resources

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Vol 2007 (53) ◽  
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World Economy ◽  
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Executive Board ◽  
Work Program ◽  
General Review ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
The World

The Thirteenth Review provides an opportunity to take stock of the overall adequacy of IMF resources in light of developments in the world economy and the international monetary system. The Resolution concluding the Twelfth Review indicated that the Executive Board intended, during the period of the Thirteenth Review, to monitor closely and assess the adequacy of Fund resources and to consider measures to achieve a distribution of quotas that reflects developments in the world economy and to strengthen the governance of the Fund. The latter two issues have since been taken up under the work program on quota and voice reform. Accordingly, the focus of this paper is on the adequacy of Fund resources.

Statement by the Managing Director on the Work Program of the Executive Board Executive Board Meeting November 4, 2009

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Vol 09 ◽  
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Global Economy ◽  
Policy Advice ◽  
Board Meeting ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Global Response ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Work Program ◽  
The One ◽  
Program Reviews

The Fund, called on to support a global response to the global crisis, has delivered with strengthened surveillance, policy advice and financing with modernized instruments. As I noted in Istanbul, where the membership expressed its appreciation for these accomplishments, we need to focus in the months ahead on four key reform areas—the Istanbul decisions, namely our mandate, our financing role, multilateral surveillance, and governance—while supporting the consolidation of the nascent upturn and helping to establish a stronger post-crisis global economy. Building on the work that we have completed in recent months (Table 1), the noncountry work program set out in Table 2 (which leaves aside country items such as Article IVs and program reviews) aims to accomplish these objectives. This work program is no less ambitious and taxing than the one we have just completed, but I am sure that we can successfully meet this challenge.

scholarly journals Statement by the Managing Director on the Work Program of the Executive Board - Executive Board Meeting, November 24, 2008

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2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (69) ◽  
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Financial Support ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Financial Instability ◽  
Board Meeting ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Financial Architecture ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
International Financial Architecture

The global economy is going through a period of unprecedented financial instability. The Fund has been asked by the IMFC to play a leading role in helping the membership both to deal with the immediate crisis and work towards a new strengthened global architecture. These tasks are well within our mandate. Addressing these challenges—and doing so within a compressed timeframe—will require strict prioritization on three key areas: (i) providing policy advice and timely financial support that meets members’ needs; (ii) understanding what went wrong; (iii) and assembling the building blocks of a new international financial architecture.

Statement by the Managing Director on the Work Program of the Executive Board - Executive Board Meeting - June 8, 2016

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Vol 2016 (49) ◽  
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Global Economy ◽  
Capacity Development ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Policy Mix ◽  
Policy Space ◽  
Board Meeting ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Global Growth

The Managing Director’s Global Policy Agenda (GPA) presented to the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) in April called on member countries to reinforce their commitment to strong, sustainable, inclusive, job-rich, and more balanced global growth and to employ a three-pronged approach with monetary, fiscal, and structural actions (Figure 1). The global economy has been impaired by growth that has been too slow for too long, but it can get back on a stronger and safer track with a more forceful and balanced policy mix. Building on the approach of being agile, integrated, and member-focused, the GPA outlined how the Fund would support members in crafting a better policy mix toward durable global growth. The Fund would assist by clarifying the contours of available policy space, providing more tailored financial support and capacity development, and continuing to address new challenges.

Statement by the Managing Director on the Work Program of the Executive Board - Executive Board Meeting, November 22, 2010

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2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 (82) ◽  
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Employment Growth ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Capital Inflows ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
Board Meeting ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Work Program ◽  
Emerging Market Countries ◽  
Sustainable Recovery ◽  
Global Growth

Persistent challenges: The multi-speed nature of the global economic recovery is testing the system, with strains already appearing in the form of large capital inflows to many emerging market countries and exchange rate pressures. At the same time, slow employment growth, high indebtedness, and remaining financial sector fragilities in some countries could yet derail a fragile recovery. Only cooperative approaches will succeed in relieving tensions and building a strong and sustainable recovery, based on a more balanced pattern of global growth.

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