WORLD ECONOMICS: IMF Lacks Power To Enforce Policy Changes.

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Three former IMF economists say that there is a great risk that governments will vow to mend their ways during this economic crisis and then ignore the IMF’s advice. Kenneth Rogoff, Raghuram Rajan and Simon Johnson, who ran the fund’s research department from 2001 to 2008, believe that was the lesson of an unsuccessful IMF effort in 2006 to smooth lopsided trade flows, and the institution still lacks enforcement tools.