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Comment: India and the IMF.

  • UPSC 1992
  • 20 marks
  • India and the Global South

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India has been a member of the IMF in every capacity: founding member, repeated borrower, critic and now creditor. The question was set in 1992, a year after India had pledged gold and accepted a Fund programme. In the decades since, India has moved from asking the Fund for money to asking it for a…

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  • Founding member
  • Borrower: crises and conditionality
  • Creditor
  • Voice and reform
  • Recent friction
  • Conclusion
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