TY - BOOK ID - 84656358 TI - Finance & Development, June 1964. PY - 1964 SN - 1463966008 1463958781 1616352744 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Banks and Banking KW - Exports and Imports KW - Macroeconomics KW - Money and Monetary Policy KW - Inflation KW - Monetary Systems KW - Standards KW - Regimes KW - Government and the Monetary System KW - Payment Systems KW - Banks KW - Depository Institutions KW - Micro Finance Institutions KW - Mortgages KW - Education: General KW - Price Level KW - Deflation KW - Trade: General KW - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth KW - Environmental Accounts KW - Monetary economics KW - Banking KW - Education KW - International economics KW - Finance KW - National accounts KW - Prices KW - Financial institutions KW - Money KW - Currencies KW - Loans KW - National income KW - Banks and banking KW - Income KW - United States UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84656358 AB - This paper describes the origin of the IMF, its organization, and its method of working. The IMF has as its aim the economic prosperity of the whole world. The IMF pursues an active program of economic research. For this purpose, it systematically collects and publishes data on international trade, holdings of gold and foreign currencies, national income, price indices, restrictions on international payments, international movements of capital, and so on. All this is part of the background against which discussions of problems of individual members are carried out by the Executive Board. ER -