IMF

Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Romania, and Ukraine were the largest borrowers from the IMF as of January 2012

Urjit R. Patel is a former RBI Governor and previously worked at the IMF, BCG, and Reliance Industries.

Historically, the IMF's managing director has been a European.

Globalization encompasses three institutions: global financial markets and transnational companies, national governments linked to each other in economic and military alliances led by the United States, and rising "global governments" such as World Trade Organization, IMF, and World Bank

The IMF's three primary functions were to oversee the fixed exchange rate arrangements between countries, to provide short-term capital to aid the balance of payments, and to help mend the pieces of the international economy after the Great Depression and World War II.

developing countries use the lending services but contribute little to the pool of money available to lend

developed countries provide financial resources but rarely enter into IMF loan agreements

IMF and World Bank would be headquartered in the United States

the architecture is a global ideological hegemony reproducing itself through IMF/World Bank/G20 institutional channels

The IMF, BIS, and academic literature on "macro-financial linkages" treat market-based finance expertise as scarce and concentrated.

IMF Managing Director is Kristalina Georgieva

The establishment of globalised economic institutions has been both a symptom of and a stimulus for globalisation