Based on a conference held in September 2005 on the future of the International Monetary Fund, this important new book includes an overview of the challenges facing the IMF today. In addition the book will look at four areas: the international monetary system and the IMF (with an emphasis on enforcing and reforming the rules), governance (including representation), fi nancial resources (the need for additional resources and how they should be supplied), and fi nancing from the fund (including the role of IMF fi nancing and the need for new facilities). Includes chapters by IMF managing director, Rodrigo deRato; Timothy D. Adams, the undersecretary for international affairs at the US Treasury Department; Kemal Dervi?, the head of the United Nations Development Program, the United Nation's Global Development Network; and John B. Taylor, former undersecretary for international affairs at the US Treasury Department.