IMF: “The International Monetary Fund is failing to meet internal rules meant to increase transparency at the world’s emergency lender, according to a Wall Street Journal review of executive board documents.
Missing from public view is potential insight into the fund’s high-level deliberations during one of the most eventful periods in its seven-decade history.
The IMF, under rules set by the board in 2014, is supposed to provide public access to most board-meeting minutes between three to five years after the discussions. Documents marked ‘strictly confidential’ or ‘secret’ require special approval for release by the managing director.
But the IMF’s online archive only has minutes up to 2010.
The fund closed its physical archive to public visits in September, leaving the online archive as its portal for accessing board minutes and other IMF documents.
The IMF has been unable to provide access to minutes from board meetings in 2011-14 that, under the transparency policy, should be available to the public—despite several requests from the WSJ.”
-Ian Talley, “IMF Falls Short of Transparency Rules as Key Discussions Remain Secret,” The Wall Street Journal online, July 20, 2017 01:40pm