Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/lE5C8B The IMF and Economic Development By: James Raymond Vreeland Publisher: Cambridge University Press Print ISBN: 9780521816755, 0521816750 eText ISBN: 9781139809832, 1139809830 Edition: 1st Format: EPUB Available from $ 24.00 USD SKU 9781139809832 This book argues that governments enter IMF programs for economic and political reasons, and finds that the effects are negative. For certain constituencies, IMF policies dampen the effects of bad economic performance by redistributing income. But IMF programs lower growth and shift the income distribution upward.