Improving IMF’s Reputation in the Context of COVID-19

Abstract

In the last decades, IMF’s reputation was affected by some negative perceptions on the organization, such as defender of the rich countries’ interests, an institution with immoral leaders, administrator of wrong solutions to the problems of national economies, promoter of the poverty and of the social inequality and so on. Soon after the COVID-19 pandemic arose, the Fund initiated active policies supporting the most vulnerable members. In this context, the institution leadership displayed the image of an “IMF with a human face”.