International Monetary Fund

noun

an international organization that promotes the stabilization of the world's currencies and maintains a monetary pool from which member nations can draw in order to correct a deficit in their balance of payments: a specialized agency of the United Nations. : IMF, I.M.F.

an international financial institution organized in 1945 to promote international trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies. A fund is maintained out of which member nations with temporary balance-of-payments deficits may make withdrawals IMF

International Monetary Fund

An agency, dominated by wealthy nations, that lends money to developing nations .

The best way to compare employment totals across many nations is through the International Monetary Fund.

Specifically, the International Monetary Fund made a decision to provide Ukraine with a multi-billion-dollar lifeline.

Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, is once again trying to pull Europe back from the brink.

Egypt has already asked the International Monetary Fund for emergency aid of $4.8 billion.

By 2017 the International Monetary Fund predicts, the GDP of China will overtake that of the United States.

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