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IMF: Allocation of Special Drawing Rights to India

Corporate Law - Reserve Bank of India vide its web communication dated September 1, 2021 informs us that International Monetary Fund (IMF) has made an allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) 12.57 billion (equivalent to around USD 17.86 billion at the latest exchange rate) to India on August 23, 2021. The total SDR holdings of India now stands [&helli...

Islamic Banks – More Resilient to Crisis?

Corporate Law - In “The Effects of the Global Crisis on Islamic and Conventional Banks: A Comparative Study,” economists Jemma Dridi of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department and Maher Hasan of the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Market Department look at the effects of the crisis on bank profitability, credit, and asset growth in countries...

Foreign Aid- Good or Bad

Corporate Law - Just 10 short years ago, the 189 member states of the United Nations signed a declaration in which they said “we will spare no effort to free our fellow men, women, and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty to which...

Jobless US

Corporate Law - The global powerful financial houses and banking giants needs a chemical to wash their foresight about the world economic recovery and GDP growth numbers projected by them in the last term. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) lifted China's GDP growth forecast for 2010 to 10.5 percent from the earlier projection of 10 percent. IMF has r...

National policies alone cannot prevent a crisis

Corporate Law - Give the known challenges, every central bank has to move in the direction of taking right steps that it may feel as appropriate despite lack of consensus on many critical issues, without waiting for the global system to move. It would be wrong, however, as noted by Mr. Stephen Roach, to presume that “best global policies are the sum of...

4TH Global Conference on 'Tax and Inequality' Concludes

Corporate Law - India successfully hosted the three day 4th International Tax Dialogue Conference on Tax and Inequality. The conference was inaugurated by the Finance Minister of India Mr Pranab Mukherjee on 7th December. ...

Proposed Amendment of the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund on Reform of the Executive Board approved

Corporate Law - The Union Cabinet today gave its approval to certain amendments to the IMF`s Articles of Agreement on Reform of the Executive Board of the IMF. The amendments are part of a package of reforms on quotas and governance in the IMF. Along with the recent quota reforms in IMF (i.e., Fourteenth General Review of Quotas), these amendments repres...

French Finance Minister, Chiristine Lagarde calls Pranab Mukherjee for support in IMF

Corporate Law - The French Finance Minister, Ms. Christine Lagarde called on the Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee today as part of her effort to seek support for her candidature to the post of Managing Director, IMF. During her talks, she outlined her vision for reforms that IMF needs to undertake and the role it can play in addressing the cu...

IMF – Selection of new chief due on June 30

Corporate Law - The International Monetary Fund's selection process for a new managing director will kick off with nominations on Monday,and the final decision expected by June 30, the institution has said. I am very pleased to announce that the Fund's Executive Board has adopted a procedure that allows the selection of the next managing director to take...

IMF chief jailed without bail in NY hotel-sex case

Corporate Law - Haggard and unshaven after a weekend in jail, the chief of the IMF was denied release on bail Monday on charges of trying to rape a hotel maid as allegations of other, similar attacks by Dominique Strauss-Kahn began to emerge. ...

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IMF: Allocation of Special Drawing Rights to India

Reserve Bank of India vide its web communication dated September 1, 2021 informs us that International Monetary Fund (IMF) has made an allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) 12.57 billion (equivalent to around USD 17.86 billion at the latest exchange rate) to India on August 23, 2021. The total SDR holdings of India now stands [&helli...

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4TH Global Conference on 'Tax and Inequality' Concludes

India successfully hosted the three day 4th International Tax Dialogue Conference on Tax and Inequality. The conference was inaugurated by the Finance Minister of India Mr Pranab Mukherjee on 7th December. ...

Posted Under: Finance |

Proposed Amendment of the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund on Reform of the Executive Board approved

The Union Cabinet today gave its approval to certain amendments to the IMF`s Articles of Agreement on Reform of the Executive Board of the IMF. The amendments are part of a package of reforms on quotas and governance in the IMF. Along with the recent quota reforms in IMF (i.e., Fourteenth General Review of Quotas), these amendments repres...

Posted Under: Finance |

French Finance Minister, Chiristine Lagarde calls Pranab Mukherjee for support in IMF

The French Finance Minister, Ms. Christine Lagarde called on the Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee today as part of her effort to seek support for her candidature to the post of Managing Director, IMF. During her talks, she outlined her vision for reforms that IMF needs to undertake and the role it can play in addressing the cu...

Posted Under: Finance |

IMF – Selection of new chief due on June 30

The International Monetary Fund's selection process for a new managing director will kick off with nominations on Monday,and the final decision expected by June 30, the institution has said. I am very pleased to announce that the Fund's Executive Board has adopted a procedure that allows the selection of the next managing director to take...

Posted Under: Finance |

IMF chief jailed without bail in NY hotel-sex case

Haggard and unshaven after a weekend in jail, the chief of the IMF was denied release on bail Monday on charges of trying to rape a hotel maid as allegations of other, similar attacks by Dominique Strauss-Kahn began to emerge. ...

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IMF not to pay bill for Kahn's infamous hotel stay

International Monetary Fund pays for all business-related hotel bills of its chief, but incumbent Dominique Strauss Kahn's stay in a luxury suite of Sofitel here does not qualify for any such reimbursement. It was during his stay at this Sofitel hotel that Kahn, who was appointed IMF Managing Director in 2007 with a salary in excess of US...

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India among world’s top 7 economies under G-20 scanner

The G-20 on Friday announced that International Monetary Fund (IMF) would review policies of the world's seven largest economies, including India and China , with the objective of rectifying flaws before they imperil growth. The US, Japan, Germany, France and Britain are the other five countries that influence the global economy. ...

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Islamic Banks – More Resilient to Crisis?

In “The Effects of the Global Crisis on Islamic and Conventional Banks: A Comparative Study,” economists Jemma Dridi of the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department and Maher Hasan of the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Market Department look at the effects of the crisis on bank profitability, credit, and asset growth in countries...

Posted Under: Finance |

Foreign Aid- Good or Bad

Just 10 short years ago, the 189 member states of the United Nations signed a declaration in which they said “we will spare no effort to free our fellow men, women, and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty to which...

Posted Under: Finance |

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