International Financial Institution Advisory Commission

International Financial Institution Advisory Commission

The International Financial Institution Advisory Commission, also known as the Meltzer Commission — named for its chair, Professor Allan Meltzer — was established by the United States Congress in November 1998 "to recommend future US policy toward several multilateral institutions: the IMF, the World Bank Group, the regional development banks such as the Inter-American Development Bank, the Bank for International Settlements, and the WTO"[1] as part of legislation authorizing $18 billion of U.S. funding for the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Contents

Majority Report

The Commission's majority report proposed changes to the operations of the International Monetary Fund and especially to those of the World Bank, which the majority recommended should withdraw from lending to so-called "middle income countries". Four (out of 5) Commission members nominated by the then-minority Congressional Democrats filed a dissent from the majority's recommendations (Bergsten, Huber, Levinson and Torres), though one of the four (Huber) both voted for the majority report and joined the dissent. The official vote tally in favor was thus recorded as 8 to 3.

Challenges

Controversy over the majority's arguments and recommendations continued after the report's publication: the majority's core recommendations are defended by Chairman Meltzer's chief advisor Adam Lerrick, and challenged by one of the Commission's critics (David de Ferranti), in their respective chapters in an edited volume published by the Center for Global Development and fully accessible on the web [2].

A Different Viewpoint

An alternative perspective is offered by Susanne Soederberg, Associate Professor, Development Studies, Queen's University (Ontario): "The Meltzer Commission drew public attention to the shortcomings of the IFIs but also heightened the legitimacy crisis of neoliberal restructuring of the global South, especially in HIPCs. For instance, the commission charged the IMF with giving too little attention to improving financial structures in developing countries and too much to expensive rescue operations." [3]

References

  1. ^ Soederberg, Susanne (2005). "Recasting Neoliberal Dominance in the Global South? A Critique of the Monterrey Consensus". Alternatives 30: 349. 
  2. ^ http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/9957
  3. ^ Soederberg, Susanne (2005). "Recasting Neoliberal Dominance in the Global South? A Critique of the Monterrey Consensus". Alternatives 30: 340. 

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