» Hoover Institution Public Policy Inquiry: International Monetary Fund    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.    http://www.imfsite.org/default.htm

» Asking the Right Questions About the IMF    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.    http://minneapolisfed.org/pubs/ar/1998/ar1998.cfm

» Debt And Dependency Are The IMF Legacy    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.    http://www.cato.org/dailys/4-23-98.html

» IMF and Structural Adjustment Policies    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.    http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/SAP.asp

» IMF's Four Steps to Damnation    Short article based on interview with Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank, now an outspoken critic of World Bank-style globalisation.    http://www.zmag.org/ParEcon/palastimf.htm

» International Financial Institutions Research Site    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 information of print media, NOT links to articles themselves.    http://www.wellesley.edu/Economics/IFI

» The International Monetary Fund: Outdated, Ineffective, and Unnecessary    A May 1997 backgrounder by the Heritage Institute's Bryan T. Johnson, which covers much of the history and criticism of the IMF.    http://www.heritage.org/Research/InternationalOrganizations/BG1113.cfm

» Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the IMF    The New Eagle offers a list of potential problems.    http://www.geocities.com/walrus95482/eagle2.html

» United States - Capitalism's Controversial Clean-Up Crew    An article examining the IMF's pros and cons, including some history and perspective.    http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/01/15/us/us.5.html