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Finance & Development

Quarterly economic journal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ5449519 ↗
Source-derived summary

Finance & Development is a quarterly journal published by the International Monetary Fund (the IMF).

The journal publishes analysis on issues related to the financial system, monetary policy, economic development, poverty reduction, and other world economic issues.

Contributors

Contributors are both IMF staff and prominent international financial experts and finance academics.

Print and web editions are published quarterly in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish.

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“Finance & Development” enters the record as quarterly economic journal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Finance, Development and Quarterly can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 66-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1964-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Finance, Development and Quarterly.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5449519. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Finance & Development” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.