Committees composedof Members from both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, which undertakes policy investigations into international economic issues

The ICIAC/Metzler group was a short-term commission set up in 1999 to provide recommendations to the US Congress and Treasury on issues related to reform of international financial organisations, the aid and debt relief process, and on the US government’s contribution to international finance. The commission looked at the future of seven key institutions: theInternational Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank Group, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).

Also known as the Meltzer Commisision after its chairman Allan H. Meltzer

WWW site includes full text of the final report, background papers and responses from the institutions involved

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