Graham Bird - 'IMF Lending to Developing Countries: issues and evidence', Chapter 1, Pages 1-12

International Monetary Fund (IMF) as originally established in order to encourage international co-operation to cope with recession and protectionism on a world scale and to discourage individual countries from pursuing policies that would beggar their neighbours and eventually themselves
1944 - Bretton Woods Conference: looked to generate benefits for international trade in the form of stable exchange rates
1970s saw the IMF accepting a new and more specific role: reflected the evolving balance of payments problems which developing countries encountered during the 70/80s
IMF involvement with developing countries included both a financing and an adjustment element
By late 1981 - most IMF lending was to the least developed countries
Lending to developing countries was a response largely due to outside events, the IMF did not orchestrate this response: except wanting to avoid a major international financial crisis as a consequence of debt
Question of whether developing countries warrant special treatment within the IMF has been wrestled with by the IMF for much of its history

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