Claims & sources
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Claims & sources for IMF. Every fact below is a verbatim quote from a real document we have stored. ↩ See the full Record
| Claim | Asserted by | Stance | Evidence balance | Source | Receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| the quota shares and voting power of the IMF's poorest member countries will be protected | United States Congress | pro | +2.0 | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| There is a need to provide more effective voice and representation for developing countries | Joseph Stiglitz | pro | +1.0 | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| The tradition of appointing a European as managing director undermined the legitimacy of the IMF. | BRICS nations | critical | +1.0 | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| $7T figure is methodologically contested | Heritage Foundation | critical | — | CANOPTICON Second-Pass Stress-Test: The | ↗ |
| the $7T figure is methodologically contested | Heritage Foundation | critical | — | CANOPTICON Second-Pass Stress-Test: The | ↗ |
| Georgieva's leadership of the IMF is pro-authoritarian | unattributed | critical | — | Kristalina Georgieva - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| IMF's loan conditions impose austerity measures | unattributed | critical | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| IMF's policies limit economic sovereignty of borrowing nations | unattributed | critical | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| The IMF would be a cooperative fund upon which member states could draw to maintain economic activity and employment | John Maynard Keynes | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | |
| The IMF would function more like a bank | Harry Dexter White | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| IMF should be located in Washington, D.C. | Fred M. Vinson | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| IMF should attach market-liberal reforms to its conditional loans | James Baker | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| some taxes levied on wealth, especially on immovable property, are also an option for economies seeking more progressive taxation | Sanjeev Gupta | neutral | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| the IMF should attach market-liberal reforms to the organization's conditional loans | Ronald Reagan administration | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| more than 6% of quota shares will shift to dynamic emerging market and developing countries and also from over-represented to under-represented members | United States Congress | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| the system of voting power distribution through a quota system institutionalizes borrower subordination and creditor dominance | unattributed | critical | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| Low-income countries can borrow on concessional terms through the Extended Credit Facility (ECF), the Standby Credit Facility (SCF) and the Rapid Credit Facility (RCF). | unattributed | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| IMF's surveillance activities have a substantial impact on sovereign debt | unattributed | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| Developing democratic countries benefit more from IMF programs than developing autocratic countries | Bumba Mukherjee | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| IMF programs improved the balance of payments | Randall W. Stone | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| reprofiling operations would generally be less costly to the debtor and creditors—and thus to the system overall—relative to either an upfront debt reduction operation or a bail-out that is followed by debt reduction | unattributed | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| developing democratic countries benefit more from IMF programs | Bumba Mukherjee | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| IMF programs improved the balance of payments | Randall W. Stone | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| Christine Lagarde was confirmed as managing director of the IMF for a five-year term | unattributed | neutral | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| IMF loans can reduce the chance of a future banking crisis | unattributed | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| IMF loans can increase the risk of political crises | unattributed | critical | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| IMF programs can reduce the effects of a currency crisis | unattributed | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| IMF loans reduce economic growth due to creating an economic moral hazard, reducing public investment, reducing incentives to create a robust domestic policies and reducing private investor confidence | unattributed | critical | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| IMF loans can have a positive impact on economic growth and that their effects are highly nuanced | unattributed | pro | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| IMF policies may be anti-developmental | Overseas Development Institute | critical | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |
| IMF's initial policies were misinformed and lacked economic rationale | unattributed | critical | — | International Monetary Fund - Wikipedia | ↗ |