IMF considers benefits of capital flow management in policy re-think

Emerging markets are more exposed than ever to booms and busts of the world’s largest economies, prompting the IMF to rip up its orthodox policy rulebook as it re-thinks its advice on non-standard monetary policy measures.

The IMF is reviewing its approach to unorthodox central bank tools such as currency intervention and capital-flow management as it looks to create a modern policy framework that better reflects the needs of developing economies in a more integrated global market system.

The move marks a departure from its traditional role as an advocate of conventional monetary policy.

The Fund is in talks with a number of countries, finance ministers and central banks to devise a new integrated policy framework, David Lipton, first deputy managing director of the IMF, tells Euromoney.

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