Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Ariel Buira -- The IMF at sixty : an unfulfilled potential? / Ariel Buira -- Conditionality and its alternatives / Devesh Kapur -- Mission creep, mission push and discretion : the case of IMF conditionality / Sarah Babb and Ariel Buira -- Up from sin : a portfolio approach to salvation / Randall Dodd and Shari Spiegel -- Trip wires and speed bumps : managing financial risks and reducing the potential for financial crises in developing economies / Ilene Grabel -- A fiscal insurance scheme for the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union / Laura dos Reis -- Who pays for the World Bank? / Aziz Ali Mohammed -- Reinventing industrial strategy : the role of government policy in building industrial competitiveness / Sanjaya Lall -- Assessing the risks in the private provision of essential services / Tim Kessler -- How well do measurements of an enabling domestic environment for development stand up? / Barry Herman -- The cocoa market under neoliberalism / Irfan ul Haque.