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Article: IMF reforms to deal with global financial crises fall short
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- AP Worldstream
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- June 17, 2003
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Dateline: WASHINGTON
The reforms the International Monetary Fund has implemented to prevent
or at least better handle global financial crises fall far short in
a number of critical areas, congressional auditors said.
The General Accounting Office said Monday that the IMF's primary forecasting
tool, its "World Economic Outlook," had a poor track record in making
forecasts about possible recessions or such key variables as a country'
s trade deficit.
The GAO review found that of the 134 recessions that occurred in 87
developing countries from 1991 through 2001, the IMF was able to predict
only 15 of the downturns or 11 percent.
And its track record at ...