Front Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Collective Surveillance: Rationale and Basic Questions -- Venues for Intergovernmental Cooperation: General Considerations -- Institutional Dimensions of Supranational Surveillance -- The IMF and Other International Organizations as Traffic Monitors and Adjustment Referees -- Soft or Hard Guidelines? -- Improving Analytical Foundations -- Dissemination of Information: Transparency versus Confidentiality -- The Individual Nation's Choice of Exchange Regime -- Guidelines for Cross-Border Financial Transactions -- Use of Financial Sector Assessments in Broader Surveillance of a Nation's Economic Policies -- Explicit Coordination of National Macroeconomic Policies? -- Evolution of Macro-Surveillance for the World Economy -- Lending Intermediation among National Governments: General Considerations -- Lending Intermediation and Surveillance by the IMF -- Should the IMF's Mandate Be Narrowed to Crisis Vulnerability? -- Should the IMF's Mandate Be Broadened? -- IMF Lending Facilities -- IMF Lending: An Overview -- The IMF: Whose Institution? -- IMF Governance: Distribution of Quotas, Voting Power, and Constituencies -- Aggregate Size of IMF Resources -- Concluding Perspective -- Appendix Table: Distribution by Nation of Key Economic Variables, Levels, and Percent of World Total -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.