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Description: Promotes international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements.
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Page title:Finance & Development, June 2002 Contents
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Description:June 2002: Main theme is poverty reduction. Point of View by Professor Angus Deaton of Princeton University on reliability of poverty counts. Overview on new approaches to poverty reduction followed by articles covering recent reviews of the IMF/World Bank Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper approach and the IMF's Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility, as well as an article on the preparation of Bolivia's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper bringing together the views of five participants. Other articles on how financial crises affect income distribution and the poor, the need for automatic safety nets, the streamlining of IMF conditionality in new loans, the impact of external debt on growth, the issue of whether countries should be obligated to repay 'odious' debt incurred by their leaders, and the challenges of expanding aid flows to poor countries with small economies. On other subjects, articles popular value-added-tax lessons from a decade transition in Eastern Europe former Soviet Union. his regular column, Straight Talk, Kenneth Rogoff, IMF Economic Counsellor Director IMF's Research Department explores volatility G-3 exchange rates.
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