Prevention is more complex than cure

Headline: Prevention is more complex than cureSource: EuromoneyDate: September 2001Author: James Smalhout The IMF has begun to stress prevention of crises rather than their cure and the new US administration agrees. But that raises numerous imponderables. Should the stress of prevention be on incentives to countries to behave responsibly or on building sound international financial […]

Headline: Prevention is more complex than cure
Source: Euromoney
Date: September 2001
Author: James Smalhout

The IMF has begun to stress prevention of crises rather than their cure and the new US administration agrees. But that raises numerous imponderables. Should the stress of prevention be on incentives to countries to behave responsibly or on building sound international financial architecture? And if the goal is to seek out better ways of forecasting impending crisis, does the IMF have the legitimacy to release market-moving information of this sort?

       
Paul O’Neill
The Bush administration started off by singing very much in tune with the chorus coming from IMF precincts in Washington.






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