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Vol 62 No 5

Published 4th March 2021


The money-sharing puzzle

The Fund prepares to hand out huge sums to its members, but an outdated formula means it may fail to kick-start economies

United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stalled a G20 plan for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to issue hundreds of millions of dollars in Special Drawing Rights (SDR), which can be traded for hard currency, when she introduced demands for greater transparency and accountability over their use on 26 February.

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