Why the IMF and World Bank matter Born from the ruins of World War II, the IMF and World Bank were designed to stabilize economies and prevent future conflicts. The IMF acts as a lender of last ...

Speculation is rife that he’ll pull the US out of the Bretton Woods twins and end the independence of the Federal Reserve.

Alarm is rising over Washington's potential withdrawal from global institutions, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, with the no-show of U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ...

One is the World Bank. The other is the International Monetary Fund (IMF). You can actually just walk in and demand to look at their books since they are extensions of the U.S. government.

In the coming months, President Donald Trump could withdraw the United States from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank or slash their funding ... to shape the rules of the global ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will discuss a new $20 billion loan for Argentina during an informal meeting next week, ...

Barry Eichengreen explains why the US president’s second administration, unlike his first, is targeting all three.

The IMF and World Bank have, for decades ... Thus IMF and WB should support inclusive tax systems. In other words, the conceptualisation and implementation of tax systems must allow the ...

By abandoning the IMF and the World Bank, the U.S. would lose a key source ... they can still salvage the multilateral system. Ngaire Woods is dean of the Blavatnik School of Government at the ...