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This chapter deals primarily with issues of international trade and financial stabilization. It focuses primarily on the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The WTO has dominated the international trading system to an extent that few IOs can claim in their issue-areas. The IMF is one of the world’s two predominant multilateral lenders and is the key international organization (IO) in the area of macroeconomic lending and management. A quarter of a century ago these institutions were seen as so important that annual or biennial meetings of these IOs attracted tens of thousands of protesters. Now they struggle to remain relevant.
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Barkin, J.S. (2023). Trade and Financial Stabilization. In: International Organization. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22559-8_9
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