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The Role of Civil Society in IMF Governance

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2009, 7(2), pp.317~351
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

Youen Kim 1

1한양대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This paper examined the role, limits and future challenges of civil society in IMF governance process. The relationship between IMF and civil society has more deepened with IMF’s acknowledging the importance of engagement with civil society since the mid 1990’s. Civil society has contributed to let IMF enhance accountability and transparency, to supplement the poor representation, and to change policies and programs, particularly including debt relief, poverty reduction, and conditionality and structural adjustment toward more considering those who are affected by them. For more effective role of civil society in future, it needs to strengthen internal legitimacy, improve lack of economic literacy in terms of activities of IMF, and cooperate between civil society organizations in the North and South in direction of supporting to build up southern partners’ capability and allow them to speak for their citizen.

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