Some key data about bond purchases by Bank of Cyprus - now the focus of a controversial EU-IMF bailout - is missing, investigators have found.
The "haircut" - hugely unpopular in Cyprus - is a condition for the EU and IMF to grant a 10bn-euro bailout to rescue the Cypriot economy.
In Romania, too, public-sector unions are up in arms over spending cuts that were decreed under a bail-out agreed with the IMF and EU. Portugal's public workers held a 24-hour strike in March to protest against a wage freeze.
Contrary to the Fed's inflation worries, the real threats to the boom are deflation, rising taxes, regulation and a still-destructive IMF.
It would allow time for the completion of a detailed IMF-study, as well as a formal interagency study under the auspices of the Economic Policy Council (which must include prominent representation from the NSC, the Department of Defense and the CIA).
As the Center reported that month, (1) a major IMF-led study commissioned by the G-7 nations at last year's Houston economic summit revealed that the Soviet Union was a basket-case economically and would remain so in the absence of wholesale structural reforms.
That gap will either be filled through a post-election concession from Brussels and the IMF, or it will leave a Syriza-led coalition presiding over fiscal chaos.
After two-and-a-half years of flatlining and a double-dip recession the IMF is now clearly losing patience.
Speaking at Omonoia Square downtown Athens, the leader of the leftist SYRIZA party Alexis Tsipras re-iterated his position that this election is a referendum on the EU-IMF Memorandum, and his pledge to declare it void, if he wins the election.
The removal of fuel subsidies - long pushed for by the IMF - was a devastating blow to the large number of Nigerians who live in absolute poverty, correspondents say.
Mr Gondwe, a former IMF vice-president, was credited with transforming Malawi's economy between 2004 and 2009.
The IMF sent a lower-ranking official to Brussels in his place who had no latitude to deviate from the IMF's deadline.
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"The International Monetary Fund today recognised the federal government of Somalia, headed by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, paving the way for the resumption of relations after a 22-year interval, " the IMF said in a statement.
Fresh from a series of meetings in Washington that included the G-20 and a summit with the IMF and World Bank, Mantega highlighted the virtues of the Brazilian economic model which has made it the seventh largest economy in the world.
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After a recent two-week inspection, an IMF team praised the government for its fiscal management in a hard time, and says GDP should go on growing by more than 5% this year after expanding by an average of nearly 6% for the past nine years, Zambia's longest period of growth since independence.
Hans Eichel, a former finance minister, suggests instead a lending facility with IMF-style conditions run by the European Commission.
About a year after its EU-IMF bailout, Greece has already been forced to negotiate additional support for its beleaguered economy.
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In a fifth year of recession, the election amounts to a rejection of the EU-IMF austerity programme that the two parties had accepted.
Even as the Group of 7 nations avoided a WTO-style contest for IMF head, America may pursue its own line on the future of the Fund, not to mention other multilateral lending agencies.
Based on prosecutors' argument that the former jet-setting IMF boss was a flight risk, the judge set stringent bail conditions, placing Mr Strauss-Kahn under house arrest with an armed guard.
Allan Meltzer, an economics professor and a critic both of bail-outs and many IMF policies, was quick to condemn what he considers a worrying breach of principle by the Bush administration.
There is speculation in Italy that Mario Monti might turn to the IMF for help, to bargain for a loan facility in exchange for an IMF-imposed reform programme.
Six years since a cash-strapped New Delhi began reforms under IMF pressure, the winds of change are dictating a new order in Indian private businesses, which produce three-quarters of GNP.
Hussain's predecessor as central bank governor, Mohamad Yaqub, who is now a member of the military-dominated National Security Council, was also a former IMF official.
Also, the pace of the tightening in the UK - at about 1% of GDP a year - is broadly in line with what the IMF recommends for advanced countries generally.
Another alternative is a greater reliance on SDRs, the IMF's quasi-currency, which operates as a claim on a basket of currencies: the dollar, euro, sterling and yen.
Italy has agreed to a monitoring program with the IMF -- in fact, invited it.
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In many a Crisis-hit country, the IMF urged that some distressed banks be sold to foreigners.
The Eurogroup, headed by Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, asked the Greek political class to support the reform package accepted as a condition of the original EU-IMF bailout.
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The political conflict between the president and prime minister has stalled decision-making processes in Romania at a time when it is finalising agreements on an IMF-backed aid package for its economy.
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