Editing International Monetary Fund (section)

====Function and policies====
The IMF is only one of many [[international organisations]], and it is a generalist institution that deals only with macroeconomic issues; its core areas of concern in [[developing countries]] are very narrow. One proposed reform is a movement towards close partnership with other specialist agencies such as [[UNICEF]], the [[Food and Agriculture Organization]] (FAO), and the [[United Nations Development Programme]] (UNDP).<ref name="The End of Poverty" />

[[Jeffrey Sachs]] argues in ''[[The End of Poverty]]'' that the IMF and the World Bank have "the brightest economists and the lead in advising poor countries on how to break out of poverty, but the problem is development economics".<ref name="The End of Poverty" /> [[Development economics]] needs the reform, not the IMF. He also notes that IMF loan conditions should be paired with other reforms—e.g., trade reform in [[developed nations]], [[debt cancellation]], and increased financial assistance for investments in [[Infrastructure|basic infrastructure]].<ref name="The End of Poverty" /> IMF loan conditions cannot stand alone and produce change; they need to be partnered with other reforms or other conditions as applicable.<ref name="Lipscy 2015" />