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.

Describes a proposed instrument for the new international monetary architecture: the New Bancor, a non-national indexed IMF issued world currency.

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.

International Monetary Fund: Facts, policies, research and perspectives on the IMF. An impressive site dedicated to examining the IMF and policies concerning it, containing articles both supporting and attacking the organization and its roles.

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.

Short article based on interview with Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank, now an outspoken critic of World Bank-style globalisation.

Is the IMF just a tool of the MultiNational Corporation?

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 info of print media, NOT links to articles themselves.

Article by Joseph Stiglitz, former Chief Economist at the World Bank, attacking free market dogma IMF-style - which he says is out of touch with reality.

An May 1997 backgrounder by the Heritage Institute's Bryan T. Johnson, which covers much of the history and criticism of the IMF.

The New Eagle offers a list of potential problems.

An article examining the IMF's pros and cons, including some history and perspective.