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September 9 2000
Horst Kohler pleased third world campaigners by raising hopes of a new deal to relieve the debts of the world's poorest countries More |
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September 7 2000
The IMF and World Bank, responding to criticisms about the way they handled the financial crises of the 1990s, issued a joint declaration aimed at improving the way they worked together
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September 1 2000
The IMF further opened its books to public scrutiny, detailing for the first time which governments provide it with resources
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August 8 2000
IMF approval for a 12-month, $1bn credit facility for Nigeria could herald substantial new donor support for one of Africa's most heavily indebted nations
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July 29 2000
Kenya's three-year rift with donors ended with the announcement of a $198m three-year loan from the IMF, which suspended lending in mid-1997 after a row over corruption and mismanagement
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July 19 2000
Call by the new head of the IMF to reverse the fund's "mission creep" More |
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June 13 2000
A key element of the Romanian government's agreement with the IMF, has been declared illegal by the Bucharest appeal court More |
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May 5 2000
Ukraine's central bank engaged in a series of clandestine transactions that led it to overstate its foreign exchange reserves by more than $700m at the end of 1997 More |
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May 1 2000
Pakistan's new military government to seek at least $2bn in a new loan from the IMF
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April 24 2000
The IMF has advised the Paris Club of sovereign creditors that there is no need to write off any part of Russia's $42bn of Soviet-era debt
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April 19 2000
Thanks to tough and well-organised policing, the spring meetings of the IMF and the World Bank passed with only minimal disruption More |
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April 14 2000
Stanley Fischer, the IMF's acting managing director, delivered a strong defence of the IMF's growing role in combating poverty More |
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March 17 2000
Gerhard Schroder conducts a one-man campaign to place a German at the head of the IMF
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February 11 2000
The IMF is broadening its investigation into alleged irregularities at Ukraine's central bank
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February 9 2000
The first highly indebted poor countries receive debt relief under an international initiative were approved by the World Bank and IMF More |
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January 14 2000
A Kenyan coalition of opposition MPs and civic leaders is campaigning against the resumption of IMF loans to the country until there is clearer evidence of economic and political reform
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December 24 1999
Turkey expected to borrow more than $5bn abroad next year after securing a $4bn standby loan from the IMF
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December 13 1999
Senior Russian finance officials warned that the IMF's decision to delay credits to Moscow set a dangerous precedent because it was motivated by political, not economic factors
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December 3 1999
Brazil to draw down $1.14bn of the money available under its $41.5bn financing agreement with the IMF, at the same time as paying back $5.14bn it has already borrowed
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November 17 1999
Several emerging market countries lobbied against the candidacy of Caio Koch-Weser, the German deputy finance minister, to succeed Michel Camdessus as managing director of the IMF More |
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October 19 1999
Bangladesh rejected the IMF's demand that it speed financial and administrative reforms in return for structural adjustment funding More |
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October 8 1999
The disbursement of new IMF payments to Russia was held up by a dispute over an investigation into state-owned Sberbank
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October 4 1999
Zimbabwe misled the IMF over millions of dollars used to bankroll its military intervention in the Congo war More |
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September 30 1999
Ecuador's decision that it could not afford to pay interest on some of its bonds set the country on a rocky road with its private creditors More |
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