What is the meaning of IMF in Finance, Organization category?

IMF is an international financial organization that was established on 27 December 1945 under the primary ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes. The purpose of the IMF is to bring financial stability, sustainable growth, uprooting poverty around the globe, managing financial crisis, facilitating international trade, and promoting high employment. As of 2020, 189 countries are members of IMF. IMF also provides lending services at almost 0% interest rates to poor and low income countries.

IMF is headquartered in Washington, D.C. U.S.

The official language of IMF is English.

One of the primary roles of IMF is to study and keep surveillance of economic and financial policies of it's member nations, this helps in increasing transparency between different member nations and increases the overall stability of world economy. IMF also publishes number of economic researches with crucial insights.