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International Monetary Fund  

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  • The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is the world's premier global financial institution, originally designed to monitor fixed exchange rates among currencies and to stabilize them by lending to countries facing economic problems. Its resources come from the reserve deposits—called “quotas”—of each member-country. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Studies; International Monetary Fund (IMF)]

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